Overview
- A 14- to 15-year-old girl died after a forced, illegal termination produced a stillborn child and her health worsened while being moved between hospitals, according to police and postmortem reports.
- Police say the girl was repeatedly raped by her school headmaster and that he and his brother allegedly gave her abortion medication; the headmaster and his brother have been arrested and the headmaster suspended.
- An FIR at Chatroo police station cites sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the POCSO Act for rape, causing miscarriage and related offences and a six-member special investigation team has been formed.
- Investigators have preserved viscera and DNA samples, are questioning multiple suspects including health and pharmacy contacts, and are probing how abortion drugs were procured and who authorised medical referrals.
- The death triggered large local protests and political demands for a time-bound or judicial inquiry and has renewed calls to fix weak child-protection oversight and the long, risky referral routes to specialist care in Jammu and Kashmir.