A senior Army doctor will now be prosecuted for the offence of rape following a Delhi court order after a protracted legal battle by an Afghan woman who came to India in 2009 and claimed the accused had married her in Kabul.
The woman, now 32, claimed before a Delhi court in her complaint that the army Major, during his posting at Indira Gandhi Hospital in Kabul, married her as per Islamic practices in 2006 when she was just 16 years and two months of age