Surkhet, March 13 -- The preliminary post-mortem report of Inisa BK, a grade 11 science student whose body was discovered in a community forest in Birendranagar on Saturday, has confirmed that the 16-year-old girl's death was the direct result of fatal internal and external haemorrhage caused by violent and forced sexual intercourse.

The findings, submitted by a team of specialist forensic doctors to the District Police Office in Surkhet on Thursday, have sent shockwaves across the country, igniting a wave of protests from Surkhet to the national capital Kathmandu as people and right organisations demand immediate justice and structural reforms to protect young women.

Inisa, originally from ward 6 of Badakholi in Gurbhakot Municipality ...