<p>A second Pre-University (PU) student staying in a hostel run by social welfare department in Chikkamagaluru has undergone miscarriage while in the hostel and the suspect minor has been arrested. </p>.<p>The suspect was produced to court which had remanded him in judicial custody. However, during the course of the investigation, the police realised that the suspect was only sixteen-and-a-half-year-old. Accordingly, the case has been shifted to the Juvenile Justice Board.</p>.<p>The student underwent miscarriage in the hostel on November 8 after she consumed a pill to abort an unwanted pregnancy. The doctors said that it was a six-month old foetus. Meanwhile, the parents of the girl have taken her home. A case has been registered, said deputy director of social welfare department BV Chaitra. </p>.<p>The student was a minor when she conceived. Now she is 18-year-old. The girl and the suspected accused hail from the same village and were having an affair. </p>.<p>The suspect will be sent to observation home, said police sources.</p>
<p>A second Pre-University (PU) student staying in a hostel run by social welfare department in Chikkamagaluru has undergone miscarriage while in the hostel and the suspect minor has been arrested. </p>.<p>The suspect was produced to court which had remanded him in judicial custody. However, during the course of the investigation, the police realised that the suspect was only sixteen-and-a-half-year-old. Accordingly, the case has been shifted to the Juvenile Justice Board.</p>.<p>The student underwent miscarriage in the hostel on November 8 after she consumed a pill to abort an unwanted pregnancy. The doctors said that it was a six-month old foetus. Meanwhile, the parents of the girl have taken her home. A case has been registered, said deputy director of social welfare department BV Chaitra. </p>.<p>The student was a minor when she conceived. Now she is 18-year-old. The girl and the suspected accused hail from the same village and were having an affair. </p>.<p>The suspect will be sent to observation home, said police sources.</p>