Summary:
The case was reported less than two weeks after the Supreme Court rejected a 10-year-old rape victim’s plea for abortion. more-inThe Charkop police on Friday arrested a 23-year-old man for raping a 13-year-old girl. The police said that the accused lived in the same locality and was arrested based on the victim’s statement. The victim’s parents found out that their daughter was 27-weeks pregnant when they approached a local doctor in Kandivali on Wednesday after the girl began gaining too much weight. He has been charged with rape under the Indian Penal Code and with sexual assault under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act..