How to handle a pregnant teenager who doesn't want the child? The Kasturba Marg police station's senior officers have been grappling with this dilemma over the past week when they arrested a Borivli schoolboy, whose 15-year-old girlfriend is pregnant.
The girl's parents, who are roadside vendors, approached the police who arrested the boy on charges of rape, as the girl was a minor. A senior policeman said the sensitive issue was the fact that the girl was in the sixth month of her pregnancy and her parents did not want the unborn baby. The family had, in fact, sought an abortion when they found about their daughter's predicament but the hospital turned them away as the girl was already 24-week pregnant. According to abortion laws, pregnancy can be medically terminated within 20 weeks of conception.
I wonder what was boy's fault, how can he be branded a criminal and thrown into jail for something which was completely consensual. Doesn't Indian Constitution guarantee equality irrespective of gender, caste, creed or religion?
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The girl's parents, who are roadside vendors, approached the police who arrested the boy on charges of rape, as the girl was a minor. A senior policeman said the sensitive issue was the fact that the girl was in the sixth month of her pregnancy and her parents did not want the unborn baby. The family had, in fact, sought an abortion when they found about their daughter's predicament but the hospital turned them away as the girl was already 24-week pregnant. According to abortion laws, pregnancy can be medically terminated within 20 weeks of conception.
=======The girl is now in a government hospital and the Kasturba Marg police, which arrested her boyfriend, have sent him to children's remand home.
I wonder what was boy's fault, how can he be branded a criminal and thrown into jail for something which was completely consensual. Doesn't Indian Constitution guarantee equality irrespective of gender, caste, creed or religion?
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