LUDHIANA: After a youth raped a grade 7 girl here, who subsequently gave birth to a child at a private hospital here on July 4, the victim and her mother have decided not to keep the child. Chief judicial magistrate Dr Gurpreet Kaur, District Legal
Services Authority (DLSA) chairman Gurbir Singh, Child Helpline Ludhiana director Kuldeep Singh Mann, coordinator Balraj Singh Grewal, and District Child Welfare Committee chairman Dr Surinder Kumar Gupta have requested an orphanage — Swami Ganganand Puri Waale International Foundation, Talwandi Khurd — to adopt the baby girl.
Mann and investigator Sukhdev Raj said the 12-year-old girl’s mother had lodged a complaint against the accused. A case has been registered under sections of Pocso (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act and the
Indian Penal Code. Sukhdev Raj said the girl’s mother had told police that the accused used to be their neighbour, along with his family. In November, he raped their daughter, but the girl did not reveal it to her parents. When the girl’s stomach started aching, they took her to Krishna Hospital in Model Town. Following initial check-up, it was found that the girl was pregnant.
After the girl delivered a baby girl, doctors informed the police about the details. Upon receiving that information, police officers came to the spot and registered a case against the accused. In order to secure the baby girl’s future, after her rejection from the family, the girl has been transferred to the orphanage, so that further legal procedures can be carried out. Manager of the orphanage Ekamdeep Kaur, and adoption coordinator Arvind Kumar Singh were present, along with Mann and Grewal, when the transfer took place.
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