14-yr-old teen, raped cousin, detained along with mother for abandoning ba
Oct 10, 2024 07:47 PM A nurse, allegedly suspected to have paid ₹60,000 the rape survivor’s mother to help deliver the infant and take it away has also been arrested BHOPAL: A 14-year-old girl who was raped her cousin and her mother have been apprehended in Bhopal on charges that they abandoned her newborn daughter near a railway track, police said on Thursday. The infant later died at a hospital. The teen rape survivor was brought up her mother after her husband walked out on her 10 years ago (Getty Images/ockphoto) A nurse who helped deliver the ba on Tuesday and later allegedly left the newborn near the rail tracks has also been arrested under Section 93 (abandonment of the child) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, said deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Bhopal Zone 1, Priyanka Shukla said. Shukla added that a case was regered against the 17-year-old boy under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offence (Pocso) Act for rape. He was also taken into custody on Thursday. The newborn was found lying in a sack near the tracks in the city’s Aishbagh area on Wednesday. When investigators scanned footage from CCTV cameras in the vicinity, they spotted a woman who was believed to have left the sack. She was identified as a nurse identified as Asma Firdaus Khan. The nurse told investigators that she was hired to help deliver a ba a Class 8 student who had been raped her cousin. Once the girl’s mother – a single mother after her husband abandoned them 10 years ago – learnt of her daughter’s pregnancy, she stopped her from going to school or stepping out of the house. “The mother made arrangements for the delivery of the child at home and gave ₹60,000 to the nurse. After the child was born on Tuesday, the nurse abandoned her,” a police officer said. The officer said it appeared that a doctor is also learnt to have guided the nurse on the steps to deliver the ba. See more News / Cities / Bhopal / 14-yr-old teen, raped cousin, detained along with mother for abandoning ba
