UP teen who delivered baby refuses to marry rapist

October 15, 2016

Bareilly, Oct 15: For a girl who dropped out of school after her class V exams as her father could not afford her education expenses, the teenage girl who gave birth to her rapist's childon Thursday after courts refused her the permission to abort is as brave as she is spunky.

teenBattling stigma, uncertainly and confusion that has come with being an unwed mother so young in a UP village, the girl, who turned 14 this month, has refused offers of marriage from the family of her rapist.

In an exclusive interview to TOI, she said she wants life in jail for her violator, not herself as a gift for him. "Look where he has left me. It will be humiliating for me to accept the man as my husband and forgive him everything," she said from her hospital bed. Fortunately for her, she has her grieving father by her side, who said people might want her to take up the proposal of marriage and put an end to the matter, but he stands by his daughter's decision.

The girl reacted after Akeel Khan, who is father of the accused Asif Khan,22, said, "If a DNA test confirms paternity of the child, we will accept both the girl and the baby, but only if she marries my son. If she is unwilling to marry, we will not accept the infant."

The? teenager, staring at her unwanted child,? said, "I want the court to sentence him for life for what he has done to me. His family wants me to marry him now to save him from a jail term. In such a way, all rapists will be freed if they are given an option to marry rape survivors. Even if I marry him, he can abandon me and the baby? later."

She added,? "After my fellow villagers learnt about my pregnancy, my family and I are being insulted, abused and threatened regularly. Though Asif committed the crime, I have been paying a heavy price for it."

The girl's father said that there is no point of compromise in the matter. "The marriage, if at all, is only to save the accused from legal trouble," he said.? ?"I stand with my daughter when she says a rapist should not be allowed to marry his victim. There should be punishment for it."

Both the father and daughter are clear about another thing. They do not want the baby. The girl, who tried to get permission for abortion from the courts and failed, has consistently been saying that bringing up a child born out of rape will never let her trauma and stigma fade. She has told cops and court that such a situation will neither help her nor her child.

So what now? Speaking for his daughter, the man said,"Once the baby is given to someone, we will take care of my daughter for a few years. We will later marry her to someone when she is mentally prepared for it. If she is married to a far-off village, she can move on with her life. She is just 14. She has her whole life ahead of her and I want her to be happy."

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July 22,2020

Thiruvananthapuram, Jul 22:An accused in a case registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act jumped into the sea on Wednesday morning when he was taken for evidence collection at Kasaba in Kasargode district, police said.

Accused Mahesh was arrested following a complaint by his neighbour on Tuesday evening.

The police said that they took the accused to the seashore to collect evidence in the case when Mahesh jumped into the sea. Two police officials too jumped in after him to catch hold of him but could not locate Mahesh.

Later, swimmers were deployed to try and locate the missing man.

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May 25,2020

Hyderabad, May 25: Indicating foul play in the death of nine people, including six of a family, whose bodies were fished out from a well near Warangal, a forensic expert on Sunday virtually ruled out suicide theory, saying it appeared seven of them had been dragged and thrown into the water body.

Mystery shrouded the death of nine people, including six of a family, whose bodies were found in a well, five of them on Friday and four on Thursday, on the outskirts of Warangal in Telangana.

Police stepped up the probe and forensic analysis was also underway in the case.

The forensic expert, who visited the crime scene as part of the investigation citing preliminary tests, said that the seven of nine people had scratch injuries and appeared to have been "dragged" and "thrown" into the well.

Forensic reports are expected in 10 days, the forensic expert told media on Sunday adding after examining the crime scene it appears that the deaths were not suicides.

"We have preserved all organs and the same were sent to forensic science laboratory (FSL) for examination... some two or three persons might have been involved in the crime. There are scratch injuries on the bodies," he said.

"It appears that they were thrown into the water... There were no injuries on the child's body. We are awaiting the forensic report (to ascertain) whether they were poisoned. It didn't appear as if they committed suicide," the expert, who performed the post-mortem said.

Police sources said at least two people were picked up for questioning.

Bodies of the head of the family, wife, daughter and three-year old grandson were found floating and fished out on Thursday.

On Friday morning, some bodies were seen floating following which police pumped out the water from the well and found others.

The 48-year old man had migrated from West Bengal over 20 years ago and had settled down here. His family had been staying in two rooms on the premises of the unit, police had earlier said.

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June 6,2020

Kota (Rajasthan), Jun 6: A 14-year-old boy allegedly hanged himself to death on early Saturday morning shortly after he stopped playing PUBG throughout the night and went to sleep, said police. 

Railway Colony police station’s in-charge Hansraj Meena said the boy, a class 9 student and son of an Army man, was found hanging from the grill of the ventilator in his bedroom on early Saturday morning. 

Meena said according to the boy’s family members, the boy had downloaded the gaming programme on his mother’s mobile phone only three days back but had been playing the game virtually continuously for the last three days. 

He kept on playing the game till 3 am in a room in which his brother was studying, said Meena, adding the boy went to adjoining to sleep after that. His body was found hanging from the ventilator’s grill in the morning, he said, adding the boy was rushed to MBS Hospital, where he was declared “brought dead”. 

No suicide note was recovered in the case, the SHO said. The boy lived in Gandhi Colony in the city along with his mother and brother, while his father, a Tamil Nadu native and Army man, is currently posted in Arunachal Pradesh. The boy’s body has been kept in hospital’s morgue for the postmortem, the SHO said.

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