New Delhi: A 15-year-old girl in Haryana on Tuesday filed a police complaint that she was gangraped for months by her two cousins. She is eight months pregnant.
Sonepat district police said the matter surfaced on Monday evening after the teenager went to a doctor complaining of stomach ache. The medics were shocked to find she was pregnant.
The girl then filed a police complaint and a case was registered under Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act.
Her cousins, residents of Sonepat’s Mahipur village, not just raped her but also threatened to kill the girl and her parents if she reported the matter to police. One cousin is 18 years old while the other is a minor.
On Monday, after visiting the doctor, the girl confided in her mother that her cousins first raped her in December last year.
“The girl was alone at home and had gone to dry clothes on the terrace when her cousins Ajeet and Suraj raped her. Since then she was raped multiple times by them,” the police sources told Gulf News.
In her complaint, the girl alleged she was dragged from the terrace to a room where she was raped by the duo the first time in December.
“While one of my cousins gagged me, the other one forced himself on me. They took turns to rape me. They threatened and continued to rape me,” she stated.
The doctors believe the termination of pregnancy at this stage is out of question.
Last week, a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed in Supreme Court for allowing a 10-year-old rape survivor to abort in the 26th week of her pregnancy.
The court rejected the petition basing its decision on the assessment of doctors who said that a medical termination was not safe either for the girl or the foetus.
Section 3 (2) (b) of Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act (MTPA), 1971, bars abortion after the 20th week. Notably, the Indian law did not allow abortion before 1971.
