New Delhi: Police say a 15-year-old girl who was raped and set on fire has died in the New Delhi hospital where she was being treated for severe burns.

Uttar Pradesh state police constable Yadram Singh says the girl succumbed to her burns early on Wednesday.

Indians protest the country's rape laws and the government response in New Delhi in 2012. Credit:Getty

Police have arrested a 20-year-old man and charged him with raping and attempting to burn the girl to death on Monday in Tigri village, outside New Delhi, near the New Delhi suburb of Noida in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

The girl was taken to the hospital with burns over 95 per cent of her body.