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.
Nearly 20 civilians were also injured. Both the dead and injured were mainly Bodos, who dominate Kokrajhar and the surrounding areas.
A woman on Wednesday alleged that her newly-born baby boy was replaced with a girl by a government hospital staff following which Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij directed the authorities to conduct a DNA test of both the woman and her baby.
Sheetal Kawale became the first such beneficiary of the scheme launched by state prisons department. Kawale, convicted by a lower court in Nagpur in 2012 for raping a relative, scored distinction in Yoga test held earlier this year.
In the wake of gangrape of a teacher along a state highway in Bareily, around 50 girls from an inter college have complained to the police about eve-teasing by local young men and have said they will not go to college unless proper security arrangements are made for them.
Terming the Delhi High Court verdict as "historic", Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung said today, "When we get elected, it doesn't mean we are rulers and instead we will have to work and confine ourselves to our roles and jobs which are in the framework of the Constitution".
At least 42 people are missing in Wednesday's Mahad bridge collapse tragedy on the raging Savitri River, in which two state transport buses and four-five private vehicles were washed away, an official said.