Abortion on teen raped and confined in a Gurugram room for three months

GURUGRAM: Doctors on Tuesday aborted the two-month fetus of a 16-year-old teenager, who was confined in a room and raped in captivity for three months, after the child welfare committee (CWC) gave its green signal following consent from the girl and her mother.

Sources said the teenagerin her latest counselling session, has told CWC members that she was cheated by her tormentor. Apparently, he had promised her marriage when, in reality, he was already married. After luring her back to Gurugram, he had even showed her a fake certificate of their marriage, but began to sedate her continuously after they had a fight.

Mohammed Aalam Manjar, a 25-year-old guard who was arrested last Friday for confining the girl and raping her, had known the teenager from a housing society in Palam Vihar where both worked. Manjar’s wife has, meanwhile, lodged an FIR against the teenager’s father and her brother.

The teenager, who since the day she filed her complaint had insisted on abortion, did not want to wait for a day more for the termination of pregnancy. Speaking to TOI on Sunday from the hospital, she had said she would rather blank out the memory of the three months of horror by terminating her pregnancy.

A member of the medical board at Civil hospital who was part of the team that carried out the abortion claimed the girl was fine but will have to stay on in hospital for recovery. “She will have to stay in hospital for 2-3 more days. Her health is satisfactory,” said Dr Pankaj Aggarwal, the principal medical officer.

The CWC chairperson also spoke to the West Bengal CWC chairperson about the case on Tuesday. “The girl wants to pursue a legal case against the accused. She does not want the child, saying it would make it impossible for her to leave behind her trauma. We have consulted CWC of West Bengal, from where the survivor hails, and then given the nod for abortion. The survivor will return to her native place for some time to recover,” said Gurugram CWC chairperson Shakuntla Dhull.

The teenager was brought to Gurugram and confined in a room at Sahib Kunj in New Palam Vihar, which Manjar had rented. He kept her there in a drugged state, by spiking her food and drinks, and raped her, the teenager has told the police in her statement.