India, Aug. 22 -- A special Pocso court on August 19 acquitted two brothers of charges of raping and impregnating their 13-year-old sister after the survivor and her parents turned hostile witnesses and refused to identify them during the trial.

The case came to light in May 2024 when the girl, then 13, complained of abdominal pain and was admitted to a hospital in Sahibabad. Doctors found that she was 22 weeks pregnant. Upon being questioned, the girl initially told her mother that her two brothers had been assaulting her since she was 11.

On May 17, 2024, the girl's mother lodged an FIR at Tila Morh police station under Section 376(3) of the IPC (rape of a girl under 16 years) and relevant provisions of the Protection of Children from...