A 10-year-old girl who is five months' pregnant after being repeatedly raped by her stepfather has won the right to have an abortion in India.
A panel of doctors had to decide whether the girl from Rohtak in Northern India should be allowed to terminate her pregnancy after she was forced to take her case to court, the Daily Mail reports.
Indian law does not allow terminations after 20 weeks unless doctors certify that the pregnant woman's life is in danger, but the medical experts passed the motion.
The girl had been due to give birth in four months and was abused multiple times by the rapist while her mother was out of the house.
The stepfather has been arrested and detained pending a full police investigation after the girl's mother reported him to police, Rohtak police official Pankaj Nain told the BBC.
The child's family had demanded that doctors from the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences allow the girl to have an abortion, which she can now have ''any time now'', a doctor on the panel said.
