A 51-year-old man was arrested for allegedly raping and impregnating his 16-year-old daughter in Karnataka’s Gadag district, the police stated on Wednesday.
The matter got here to gentle Monday when the woman was taken to a hospital by her mom after she complained of swelling in her legs, they stated.
After a medical examination, the medical doctors confirmed to the sufferer’s mom that she was 31 weeks pregnant, the police stated. The lady confronted her daughter, who revealed that her father had been sexually assaulting her over the previous one yr when nobody was at house, the police stated.
He additionally threatened to kill her if she revealed it to anybody, a senior police officer stated.
Based mostly on a grievance filed by the sufferer’s mom with the Mulgund police station, a case has been registered below the POCSO Act and different related sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), the officer stated, including that the accused father was arrested Tuesday.
Police stated the woman has been supplied with counselling and can endure a radical medical examination.
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