NEW DELHI: In a bizarre incident, a 14-year-old girl, was raped by a class teacher who then ordered the school cook to abort the teenager's 10-week old pregnancy. The girl has been admitted to hospital for severe bleeding and is now in critical condition. The incident was reported in a school in Unnao, near Lucknow, the capital of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, which is known for its lawlessness. The girl in her complaint has alleged that the school teacher Hari Narayan had raped her over two months ago and had later asked the school's female cook Anuradha to administer a pregnancy-terminaton pill to her, which caused severe bleeding forcing the girl's parents to hospitalize her. “A few days ago the school authorities informed us that she was not keeping well. We brought her home and when the bleeding did not stop, we took her to the local hospital. The doctors here told us about the abortion attempt,” the victim's parents told reporters in Lucknow, adding that the teacher had threatened her with dire consequences if she squealed about the sexual assault to her parents. Uttar Pradesh's minister of state for basic education, Waseem Ahmed, said that a probe had been ordered into the incident, adding that the victim's class mates would also be quizzed to look for other instances of sexual assaults on them by the teacher. Hospital authorities claim that the victim is in critical condition. “The pill given to the girl has damaged her uterus besides causing some internal complications,” Chief medical superintendent of the S M Shankwar of CSM medical university said.
