40-year-old father rapes, impregnates underage daughter, is detained | News from Mumbai

Mumbai: A 40-year-old man was arrested on Thursday for raping and impregnating his minor daughter for several months. According to police, the man is a criminal and has several criminal complaints against him at various police stations, including rape charges. In November last year, the man came out of jail and started sexually abusing the minor girl. When the girl was taken to the hospital in severe pain, doctors, after conducting several tests, told her that she was seven months pregnant.

“We have arrested the 40-year-old man whose wife had already left him and married another man. His minor daughter is 17 and has been living with her paternal grandmother (his mother) since the time her mother left her and the accused was in jail,” an official said.

“The girl was threatened by her father and was therefore a mother for several months. She confided to one of the girls in her neighbourhood that she had not had her period for several months and was constantly suffering from stomach pains. The neighbour took her to a government hospital where it was learned that she was seven months pregnant,” the police officer said.

The hospital then informed the police, who took her statement and filed a criminal complaint against her father.

“We have arrested the man under Section 376(2)(n) (punishment for rape) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Sections 4 and 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. He was arrested by our teams while trying to escape. He is a street vendor by profession and the family lives in slums,” the police officer said.

Police said the girl was taken to hospital and her condition is currently stable.