CHANDIGARHA medical board constituted on the directions of a local court has rejected a plea of a 15-year-old pregnant rape survivor to abort the foetus, citing the procedure would be dangerous for her life at this stage.As the rape survivor is six months pregnant, abortion can have dangerous consequences at this stage, the board is learnt to have stated in its report. A doctor of the gynaecological department of Government Multi-specialty Hospital, Sector 16, submitted the report in a juvenile court. The accused is a juvenile.The boy had allegedly been raping the 15-year-old girl over the last few months. The case came to light when the survivor became pregnant. Parents of the girl had alleged the boy had been living in their neighbourhood a few years back and knew them. Later, he moved somewhere else. The complaint had said the boy's mother had died and when his father would go for work, he would take the girl to his house and rape her. When the girl's menstrual cycle stopped, she told her mother that she had become pregnant after being raped by the accused. She took the girl to a hospital and informed the police.The mother of the rape survivor had moved the application on her behalf. The matter was sent to a special court, which directed a medical board be constituted.

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