Apart from Kuldeep Sengar, five other accused were also discharged from the court after observing that prima facie there is no evidence against these accused persons
Earlier, abortion required the opinion of one doctor if it is done within 12 weeks of conception and two doctors if it is done between 12 and 20 weeks.
The woman later told an official a 30-year-old man was raping her since 2016, on the pretext of marriage.
Amitabh Thakur, after his arrest on Friday, has been remanded to judicial custody till September 9.
Victim was gang-raped near Chamundi foothills on the outskirts of Mysuru on August 24. The culprits assaulted her male friend who was with her.
Bohra had first demanded money from the woman, who had got three cases, including one of rape, lodged. Subsequently, he began demanding sexual favours from her for taking action in the cases.
The incident occurred in the early hours of Thursday. The victim, who has a daughter, was living with her maternal grandmother following a dispute with her husband, the police said.
The girl's father had sought permission from the district administration to abort her baby but the permission was denied as doctors cited the pregnancy was of many days and a police case was on.
The 35-year-old woman, who went to the Jalalabad police station to file her complaint, said the sub-inspector took her to an adjoining room on the pretext of filing her complaint and sexually assaulted her.
In a bizarre incident, a rape survivor has ended up marrying one of the six persons accused of gang-raping her in a moving car, within days of lodging an FIR against the accused. Police came to know about the wedding after the 'nikahnama' was circulated on social media on Saturday, a day after the wedding. The FIR was lodged on Friday at the Didauli police station in Amroha though the complaint had been submitted a week ago.
The Kerala High court on Saturday allowed the petition of a 14-year-old rape survivor to terminate her 24-week pregnancy. Terming it a 'difficult and disheartening situation', a division bench comprising Justices AK Jayasankaran Nambiar and Shaji P Chaly passed the order after an urgent hearing held via video-conferencing.
A 22-year-old woman, who was allegedly raped, died under mysterious circumstances at a village here, police said on Monday.
A Delhi court on Saturday deferred till March 4 the pronouncement of judgement in a case pertaining to alleged custodial death of the father of a woman, who was raped by expelled BJP Legislator Kuldeep Singh Sengar in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao district three years ago.
A minor rape victim was attacked with acid in Hapur district on Sunday. The victim and her family alleged that a relative of the accused was pressurizing them for a compromise and when they refused, she was attacked with acid.
A rape victim's father was murdered by the accused who was roaming free even after his bail was cancelled by the court.
The woman had claimed in her complaint that some persons had visited her house and threatened her to withdraw the case.
A fixed deposit of Rs 10 lakh has been handed over to an impoverished gang rape survivor here by private organisations and businessmen in order to ensure her rehabilitation facilitated by the Noida police, officials said on Sunday.
"The condition of the patient is extremely critical and she is on ventilator. Even her vitals are very low," said Dr Shalab Kumar, Head of Burn and Plastic Surgery at the hospital.
The rape survivor from Unnao, who was airlifted to Delhi and admitted to the Safdarjung Hospital here, is extremely critical and on ventilator, doctors attending to her said on Friday."The condition of the patient is extremely critical and she is on ventilator. Even her vitals are very low," said Dr Shalab Kumar, Head of Burn and Plastic Surgery at the hospital
Raped by three men in March, a woman in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao was set ablaze while she was on her way to a court. The men who set the woman on fire included rapists who were out on bail for the crime. The Unnao rape survivor was admitted to a hospital with 90 per cent burn injuries.
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