India, April 9 -- Karnataka's Gadag Police arrested a 51-year-old man on Wednesday who was accused of repeatedly raping and impregnating his underage daughter. The case surfaced earlier this week when the girl's mother brought her 16-year-old daughter to a hospital due to complaints of leg swelling on Monday.

According to news agency PTI, medical tests, including a scan and blood work, revealed that the teenager was 31 weeks pregnant, a fact disclosed to her mother by the attending doctor. Shocked by the revelation, the mother questioned her daughter, who then confessed that her father had been sexually assaulting her for the past year, taking advantage of times when the house was empty. She also disclosed that he had warned her of sever...