Shahjahanpur College Student Found With Severe Burns Along Highway In UP: Cops

The student was found with severe burns and that was taken to a hospital (Representational)

A young woman was found lying severely burnt along a national highway in Shahjahanpur district in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Tuesday.

It was not immediately known how the woman -- a BA second-year student of a college run by a trust of former union minister Swami Chinmayanand -- suffered burns and with no clothes on the body ended up on the roadside, the police said, adding that she was not in a state to record her statement.

According to Superintendent of Police S Anand, the student suffered 60 per cent burns and has been referred to a hospital in Lucknow for better treatment.