The Karnataka Police arrested an individual for allegedly marrying a minor woman and impregnating her. The problem got here to mild after the minor woman was admitted to a hospital for supply.
The accused is a grama panchayat president in Belagavi district and had purportedly married the woman in 2023, when she was 15 years outdated.
After information in regards to the minor woman unfold, the district baby safety unit filed a criticism with the Belagavi ladies’s police station. Thereafter, the police registered a case beneath sections of the Prohibition of Little one Marriage Act, Safety of Kids From Sexual Offences Act, and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
That is the second incident inside every week whereby a minor woman has delivered a child within the state. A minor woman finding out in Class 9 in Shivamogga district delivered a untimely child at her residence on Friday. Her mother and father weren’t conscious that she was seven months pregnant.
Lately, responding to a question raised by MLC Dhananjaya Sarji, the federal government knowledgeable the Home that 80,813 teenage pregnancies had been reported within the state within the final three years. Bengaluru city district reported 8,891 such instances, adopted by Vijayapura with 7,143 instances.
Of the 80,813 teenage women who turned pregnant, 3,459 had been between 14 and 17 years outdated.