Following death of a 14-year-old girl, who delivered a stillborn child during her illegal pregnancy abortion on Thursday, senior superintendent of police (SSP) Kishtwar, Naresh Singh has constituted a six-member special investigation team (SIT), said officials on Saturday.
“The SSP has constituted a SIT to probe the alleged repeated rape, illegal abortion and death of a 14-year-old girl and her stillborn child in Kishtwar’s Chatroo on Thursday,” said a police officer.
The SIT is headed by ASP Kishtwar, Pardeep Singh Goria, and its members include SDPO Chatroo deputy superintendent of police Nitish Kumar, SHO Chatroo inspector Rishi Kumar, and three other police officers, he added.
The victim, a Class 5 student at the Government Middle School in Chatroo, was repeatedly raped by 42-year-old headmaster Khalid Hussain Sheikh, resulting in her pregnancy. Police have arrested Sheikh and his brother, Tariq Hussain. “Several suspects are being grilled to unravel the entire truth,” said the officer.
According to the FIR, the girl was allegedly forced to orally ingest an abortion termination medication that deteriorated her condition and eventually led to her death.
Meanwhile, bodies of the victim and her still born child were laid to rest at their ancestral graveyard in Gurinall village in Kishtwar district on Saturday. Students also staged protests in adjoining Doda district demanding justice to the victim and her family.
{{/usCountry}}Meanwhile, bodies of the victim and her still born child were laid to rest at their ancestral graveyard in Gurinall village in Kishtwar district on Saturday. Students also staged protests in adjoining Doda district demanding justice to the victim and her family.
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