Teacher accused in Pocso case asks court for abortion
Surat: The 23-year-old tuition teacher who allegedly ran off with her
13-year-old student
on Friday moved court seeking permission to abort her pregnancy. The medical examination after her arrest found that she was 20 weeks pregnant.
It is yet to be ascertained who the father of the child is, while a sample from the fetus was recently taken for DNA testing.
The accused, through her lawyer, appealed to the court that various medical examinations suggest that the pregnancy and delivery could be a threat to her life. "We have approached the court for termination of pregnancy and are hopeful that, considering various factors, the court will give permission. There is a threat to the life of the child as well as the father is said to be a young boy and pregnancy through a young boy can be considered abnormal," said Wajid Shaikh, the lawyer of the accused woman. The accused teacher was arrested under the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) on March 30. She was initially booked at Punagam police station after she disappeared with her 13-year-old student on April 25. She was later caught near the Gujarat-Rajasthan border. Before they were caught, the teacher and her student went to Vadodara, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Delhi and Vrindavan. The investigation revealed that the woman allegedly had physical relations with the boy at her home and other places.
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