The Mumbai Police on Friday arrested a man under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act for raping his mentally challenged daughter.
The police arrested the man yesterday and produced him before the court.
The court had given him two-day police custody.
The girl was taken to the Cooper Hospital.
After medical check-up, the doctor said she is pregnant.
Further details are awaited.
In his first public speech after last Sunday’s attack by four terrorists, the Prime Minister also said that India was ready to take on Pakistan but in a fight on who would first eradicate poverty and unemployment.
The incident took place in Baghapurana town on Thursday when Paramjit Singh and his son Gurjit Singh came to the hospital along with a patient.
The trial of a man accused of one count of first-degree murder in an attack that left six people dead has been delayed, pushing it back more than a decade from when the slayings happened in Surrey, B.C.
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Friday accused the Congress of inciting communal tensions in the state for its vested political interests.
The incident was reported from Mota Karja village in Amirgadh taluka in which Nileshbhai Dhunabhai Ranavasia and his family was thrashed on Friday night because they refused to go the fields of the assailants to remove carcass of cattle.
"While the nature and type of retaliation should be decided by the army, it must at no cost let the perpetrators of the terror attack go unpunished," he told reporters here.