Srinagar: The Inspector General of Police Kashmir Swayam Prakash has said that “intensive enquiry” was underway into the matter regarding rape of a mentally retarded woman who gave birth to a child in an abandoned house at Kulan area of central district Ganderbal without any medical help in the dead of night on November 20 this year.
Submitting a report before the high court which has taken suo-moto cognizance of the matter by treating media reports as Public Interest Litigation, the top cop of the Kashmir also revealed that the woman, in her early thirties, after receiving treatment at PHC Gund, has been handed over to her father.
According to the news report, treated as PIL, one person who had gone to buy vegetables in the morning saw the girl and rushed to help her. Later, more people joined and took her to local hospital. The baby she had delivered had died and people, mainly from local Masjid authorities, buried the newborn.
At Lal Ded hospital where she was eventually admitted, the woman after early treatment has been advised psychiatric consultation.
