Vijayawada: A 49-year-old man raped and impregnated his 14-year-old daughter in Baleswarapuram Village BestavariPeta Mandal in the Prakasam District.
The incident was revealed on Friday after the girl’s grandparents found that she was five months in pregnancy when they took her to the doctor for examination.
According to BestavariPeta police, the defendant was a chronic alcoholic addict.
He allegedly attacked his daughter in January this year when his wife went to buy supplies for their mango garden near Shingarapalle Village.
The police said the girl had told her mother and sister about the incident, but the defendant threatened both of them with death if they were not silent.
Recently, the girl complained of her stomach pain and grandparents, who came to visit her, took her to a government hospital.
The doctors said the girl was five months pregnant.
Family members do not pay attention to their development.
The grandparents took the girl to the BestavariPeta police station where complaints were submitted.
However, when the police reached their house to arrest the defendant – both parents got the wind of police complaints and escaped, their cellphones were turned off.
The police said that they had registered cases under the relevant section of the protection of children from sexual law, 2012 and part 376 IPC.
The police formed a special team to track the defendant using their last location on their cellphone.
(The identity of the victim has not been revealed to protect its privacy according to the direction of the Supreme Court about cases related to sexual violence)