16 Dec 2020
A pregnant woman detained in north India’s Uttar Pradesh last week under the state’s “love jihad” law said Tuesday she received injections from authorities while in detention that she believes induced a miscarriage.
“I was tortured at the Nari Niketan [women’s shelter] for three days after which I developed abdominal pain. First they didn’t listen to me, but when my condition got serious they took me to the hospital, and after which doctors gave me injections. Once the injections were administered, I started bleeding heavily,” Pinki Jahan, 22, told reporters Tuesday, according to India’s News18. She was three to four months pregnant before authorities detained her on December 6.