India, Nov. 19 -- A 30-year-old pregnant woman's wrist was slit by her in-laws on April 16 with broken pieces of glass after she refused to abort her child, which a sorcerer allegedly said would be a girl, the police said after an FIR was lodged through a court order on Tuesday.

"The woman, now nine months pregnant, is a native of Punjab. Soon after she conceived, her in-laws took her to a sorcerer who claimed the foetus to be a girl, and predicted that she might get a boy the next time if she aborts the current one," Station house officer of Muhana police station Gurbhupendra Singh said

According to the officials, her in-laws also tried to take her to the hospital forcibly on March 10 to abort the foetus. "They didn't clinically determ...