Katihar man disowns pregnant wife raped by her maternal uncle

PATNA: In a shocking incident, a man refused to accept his wife who had become pregnant after being allegedly raped by her maternal uncle at a village under Falka police station in Katihar for several months.
The victim, aged around 20 years, submitted a written complaint to Falka police station on Tuesday against her maternal uncle for raping and impregnating her. Police said the victim is eight months’ pregnant.She has also named four other family members in the FIR, including her maternal grandfather, for thrashing and kicking her out of their residence.
Police said the victim’s parents were no more and it was her maternal grandfather who got her married to a person under Rupauli police station area in Purnea district. But she had been staying in Katihar since more than nine months.
A police team went to her maternal uncle’s place on Wednesday, but he was not found there, Falka police station SHO Sunil Kumar Mandal said. “The victim would be produced before judicial magistrate on Thursday for recording her statement,” he said.
The SHO, quoting the FIR, said she was raped by her maternal uncle for several months under threat that he would kill her if she told anyone about it. “The victim said she went to her husband after being kicked out of her maternal uncle’s home, but he refused to accept her saying she should better stay with the one whose child she is carrying in her womb,” he said.
The SHO said a meeting took place in the village a few days back in which her maternal uncle had agreed to pay her Rs2 lakh in ten days for not dragging the matter to police. “Later, he refused to pay her saying he would better fight a case,” the SHO quoted the victim as saying.
Mandal said the woman was presently living in her maternal uncle’s residence. “Her maternal grandfather urged police not to register a case saying Rs2 lakh had been already paid to the victim’s husband,” the SHO added.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)