Nearly three months after a 10-year-old rape victim gave birth to a girl after she was impregnated by her maternal uncle, the newborn is now declared free for adoption.
Website of the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) now has details of the baby, born on August 17 at a local hospital. The UT social welfare department has provided this information to the state legal services authority that will be submitting it to the Supreme Court along with the status report of the case on Thursday.
India has a 20-week ceiling on the abortion policy unless there is grave danger to the mother or unborn baby. The victim was discovered to be pregnant when she was 30 weeks pregnant after her mother took her for a check-up at a hospital here. The victim has not been told of the birth and made to believe that she had a stomach ailment operation, officials said.