A 34-year-old man has been arrested for raping a 15-year-old lady, a Class 7 pupil of a personal college, after she delivered a male baby on the Civil Hospital in Sector 10 on Tuesday, police mentioned. Neither the dad and mom nor the lady was conscious of her being pregnant till she entered labour, they mentioned.
Based on the police, the person used to remain within the locality and raped the lady on a number of events between December 2024 and March this 12 months. He additionally threatened her with dire penalties if she revealed the assault to others, they mentioned.
A senior police official mentioned that instantly upon receiving an alert, a police crew was despatched to the hospital for investigation. “The sufferer turned out to be a minor. her situation, we registered a case in opposition to a suspected neighbour underneath Part 6 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault) of the Safety of Kids from Sexual Offences Act at Sector-10 police station on foundation of the assertion given by her father on Wednesday,” he mentioned.
The suspect, who labored in a personal agency, was married and resided in Kadipur. However, he fled the locality after vacating his rented lodging in February this 12 months, police mentioned.
Police mentioned they managed to hint him by Thursday, after which he was despatched to judicial custody by a metropolis courtroom on Friday.
The incident got here to mild when the lady complained of extreme stomach ache on Tuesday, following which her dad and mom rushed her to the hospital. After a check-up, docs alerted the dad and mom that their minor daughter was pregnant and was affected by labour pains.
Police officers mentioned that she delivered a boy the identical day, following which the hospital officers alerted the Sector 10 police station in regards to the suspected rape case.
A police official aware of the investigation mentioned, “The suspect had threatened her with dire penalties following which she was terrified and didn’t not disclose something to her dad and mom or anybody else.”
“Unaware in regards to the penalties and her physiology, she even continued to attend her college repeatedly whereas she had already grow to be pregnant. The sufferer and her dad and mom had been fully unaware that she was bearing a toddler in her womb until the final second when she began affected by labour ache,” the officer mentioned.
Sandeep Turan, public relations officer of Gurugram police, mentioned that the sufferer was but to be discharged from the hospital. “After she is discharged, she and her dad and mom might be counselled by the Baby Welfare Committee and her assertion might be recorded earlier than a Justice of the Peace,” he mentioned.
Investigators mentioned that DNA testing might be carried out to determine the suspect’s paternity in the middle of the trial, earlier than the courtroom to make sure his conviction within the case. They mentioned that the sufferer can even be supplied with financial help, as per the regulation.
