Four days on,cops file FIR

Four days after a woman accused her husband and in-laws of forcibly getting her to abort her girl child,police finally registered a case on Wednesday.

Four days after a woman accused her husband and in-laws

of forcibly getting her to abort her girl child,police finally registered a case on Wednesday. The victim,Nirmal Kaur,alleged that police were not acting on her complaint due to pressure from a Akali leader. Kaur,who had married Lakhwinder Singh in Faridkot about eight months ago,in a

written complaint to the Moga SSP alleged that her in-laws

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and husband had forced her into an abortion after getting

a sex determination test done at a scanning centre. She further said that the abortion was done by Charanjit Kaur,a

nurse from Gill road in Moga. The victim and her family

members from Kotakapura had been pleading with policeto register a case from Sunday. It was only after the family

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gheraoed a police station and the SSP office on Wednesday

that the police finally registered a case on Wednesday.

A SAD leader from Kotakapura reportedly told the

Moga police to not register a case against the owner of the

scan centre. SHO Jaswinder Singh confirmed that Nirmals