In a shocking incident, a 13-year-old boy allegedly raped and impregnated his 15-year-old sister in Mumbai.
The incident came to light when the girl’s parents visited the Vashi General Hospital to terminate her three-month-old pregnancy. The police were then notified by the hospital.
Police have registered a case against the victim's minor brother.
A police officer involved in the investigation said that the girl revealed that she and her brother watched porn together in December and then tried to have sex but failed.
“But in the following month (January), the boy allegedly raped her even as she had asked him not to. The matter was finally disclosed to the mother after the victim missed her menstruation cycle,” the officer added.
The boy was booked under sections 376 (rape) and 376(2)(n) (repeatedly raping the same woman) of the Indian Penal Code, and sections 4, 6, 8 and 12 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
The case has been transferred to the Khandeshwar police and the Child Welfare Commission will decide the further course of action.
In a similar incident, two brothers were arrested on Sunday for allegedly raping their 14-year-old sister in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad.
They had been allegedly sexually exploiting a class 8 student from last year, due to which she became pregnant, police said.
One of the accused is 20 years old, while the other is 23 years old.
The minor girl had a stomach ache on Saturday, following which, her mother took her to a diagnostic centre in Delhi for ultrasound, where it was confirmed that she was 22-week pregnant, police said.