Man held for coercing a 16-yr-old girl into marriage, impregnating her twice: police

According to police, the lawsuit was registered based connected a ailment by a constabulary constable who, connected November 10, received a telephone astatine the constabulary presumption from a hospital.

The infirmary authorities told constabulary that they person admitted a woman, who is four-month large and is joined to a 34-year-old man, but they suspected that she was underage.

“The victim’s tummy was aching and her humor unit had abruptly risen owed to which the household members had rushed her to the hospital,” said an serviceman investigating the case.

While checking her Aadhaar card, the doctors astatine the infirmary realised that she was a calved successful 2006, which meant she was a insignificant portion getting married.

However, her household members claimed that determination was a printing mistake connected the Aadhar paper and that she was calved successful 2000.

“As the infirmary authorities did not judge them, they reported the substance to the constabulary presumption pursuing which a squad was sent there,” the serviceman added.

During the people of the inquiry, the constabulary officials learnt that the unfortunate and the 34-year-old antheral got joined successful February 2023 successful a temple.

The unfortunate had conceived a kid subsequently but she suffered a stillbirth pursuing which due medicines were provided to her aft consulting a backstage doc then.

“We are trying to probe and find retired whether she suffered a stillbirth oregon the miss was forced to acquisition an termination astatine home,” an serviceman added.

The constabulary officials past mentioned the incidental successful their presumption location dairy pursuing which they initiated a probe and wrote to the section ward bureau of the BMC and her schoolhouse authorities to ascertain her age.

“We procured the documents which confirmed that she was calved connected 2006 aft which a lawsuit was registered connected November 13 nether applicable sections of the BNS, Protection of Children nether Sexual Offences Act and Prohibition of Child Marriage Act,” said a elder constabulary officer.

Police arrested the 34-year-old antheral aboriginal this week and helium is presently successful their custody.

“Although we person booked her parent and member successful the case, we are probing to ascertain their relation successful the transgression and are trying to recognize the crushed for coercing the miss into a kid marriage,” an researcher said.