India, Nov. 12 -- A man in his 40s was arrested in Assam's Cachar district for allegedly raping and impregnating his 16-year-old daughter in 2022, police said on Tuesday.

According to police officers, the survivor, who later gave birth to a baby girl in the Udharbond area, lodged a complaint with the help of the Child Helpline on January 18, nearly two years later.

A case under Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, which deals with aggravated penetrative sexual assault, and Section 376(3) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which prescribes 20 years to life imprisonment for raping a woman below 16 years of age, has been registered.

"After receiving the complaint in January this year, we registered ...