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 A fast-track court in India has convicted two men of raping a 10-year-old girl who gave birth to a baby girl in August. 
 
 Both the men were the child's uncles. The sentencing is set for Thursday. 
 
 Her pregnancy was discovered in mid-July when she complained of a stomach ache and her parents took her to hospital. 
 
 The second uncle was arrested after the baby's DNA sample did not match that of his older brother, the first suspect. 
 
 The final arguments were completed by the defence on Monday. On Tuesday, the two men were declared guilty in court. 
 
 The older uncle's trial took a month, while the younger uncle has been convicted in a remarkable 18-day trial, BBC Punjabi's Arvind Chhabra reports from Chandigarh. 
 
 The harrowing case of the 10-year-old has made headlines for weeks, both in India and globally. 
 
 She was 30 weeks pregnant when a local court in Chandigarh turned down her abortion plea on the grounds that her pregnancy was too advanced. A doctors' panel had advised that a medical termination would be "too risky". Later, the Supreme Court also refused to allow an abortion for her on similar grounds. 
 
 Indian law does not allow terminations after 20 weeks unless doctors certify that the mother's life is in danger. 
 
 The girl was not aware of her pregnancy, and was told her bulge was because she had a stone in her stomach, says the BBC's Geeta Pandey in Delhi. She gave birth in August and the baby was given away to child welfare authorities for adoption. 
 
 The girl initially told police and child welfare activists that she had been raped several times in the past seven months by the first uncle, who is in his 40s. 
 
 She had also testified to the court by video link and very clearly named the uncle and revealed details about her abuse. 
 
 The girl's father had told the BBC that the first uncle had not denied the charges against him. Police also said he had admitted to the allegations. 
 
 But after his DNA test results did not link him to the baby, police began searching for more suspects - and arrested the second uncle in September. A DNA test confirmed that he was the baby's father. 
 
 Image copyright AFP Image caption India is home to 400 million children (file picture) 
 
 The country's courts have received several petitions in recent months, many from child rape survivors, seeking permission to abort. 
 
 In most cases, these pregnancies are discovered late because the children themselves are not aware of their condition. 
 
 In September, a 13-year-old girl was given court permission to terminate her pregnancy at 32 weeks. The boy she was carrying was born alive in Mumbai but died two days later. 
 
 In May, a similar case was reported from the northern state of Haryana where a 10-year-old, allegedly raped by her stepfather, was allowed to abort. She was about 20 weeks pregnant, doctors said. 
 
 None of the girls can be named for legal reasons. 
 
 The scale of abuse in India 
 
 A child under 16 is raped every 155 minutes, a child under 10 every 13 hours 
 
 More than 10,000 children were raped in 2015 
 
 240 million women living in India were married before they turned 18 
 
 53.22% of children who participated in a government study reported some form of sexual abuse 
 
 50% of abusers are known to the child or are "persons in trust and care-givers" 
 
 Sources: Indian government, Unicef ||||| Watching her favourite cartoon on television at home, little did the 10-year-old rape victim know that just in a few hours a local court will seal the fate of her two maternal uncles, who raped her and one of them impregnated her at this tender age. 
 
 As the staff and judicial officer of the fast-track trial court prepared for the verdict — three-and-a-half months after the heinous crime came to light — and UT cops got ready to take the two accused to court from the high-security Burail jail, the girl was alone at her home in a southern sector of the city on Tuesday afternoon. 
 
 “I am unwell. So I did not go to school,” she said, even as she has been regularly attending the school after giving birth to a girl on August 17. 
 
 Her electrician father and mother, who works as a domestic help, were away for work, while her elder sister had gone to school. 
 
 Notwithstanding the trauma the family has gone through in the past months, they chose to skip the hearing. 
 
 In the evening, after the two accused had been convicted of rape, her mother — who was back from work by now — preferred to maintain privacy and drew the curtains of their one-room quarter. 
 
 Earlier, in court, the woman’s two cousins appeared expressional as additional district and sessions judge Poonam R Joshi held them guilty. 
 
 While the defence counsels appeared anxious, it seemed the duo didn’t even register what was happening. 
 
 Even as the wife of the younger uncle — who fathered the minor’s child — was present for the verdict, the family of his elder brother — who are in Nepal — gave the hearing a miss. 
 
 With the court giving its verdict, the two face up to life imprisonment. The quantum of sentence will be pronounced on Thursday. 
 
 The two have been found guilty under Section 376 (2) (f) (i) (n) — committing rape on a woman when she is under 12 years of age, a relative and it involves repeated intercourse — of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and Sections 5(i) — penetrative sexual assault on the child more than once or repeatedly — and 6 — aggravated penetrative sexual assault — of the Protection of Children From Sexual Offences Act, 2012. 
 
 The ordeal 
 
 It was on July 14 that doctors found the girl to be 30-week pregnant when her mother took her to hospital after she complained of a stomach ache. A local court dismissed the girl’s abortion plea, a decision upheld by the Supreme Court, as the doctors said the procedure would be too risky. 
 
 On the girl’s complaint, police arrested her mother’s cousin, who was a guard at a local hotel, for rape. But the case turned on its head when the DNA samples of the girl’s child — who took birth on August 17 — didn’t match with those of the uncle, as first reported by Hindustan Times on September 11. 
 
 Seventeen days later, police arrested the man’s younger brother, who turned out to be the main accused. 
 
 The girl told police that she was first raped by the younger uncle, a cook with the same hotel as his brother, around Christmas in 2016. The older uncle, too, assaulted her repeatedly from April till early July, she said. Initially, the girl didn’t name the younger uncle, fearing he would come good on his threat of killing her parents.
– It was an unforeseen twist in a highly publicized case that had seemed to be at its end: DNA results showed in September that a 10-year-old girl in Chandigarh, India—who was pregnant via rape, not permitted to abort, and in August gave birth—was not impregnated by her uncle, as has been alleged. Now, not one but two guilty verdicts in the case. The BBC reports two of the girl's uncles were on Tuesday convicted of raping the girl and will be sentenced Thursday; they could be handed life sentences, reports the Hindustan Times. The girl had named her rapist, an uncle in his 40s, in testimony given via video. That uncle reportedly confessed to his crimes to both the police and the girl's father. But the DNA ultimately showed he hadn't fathered the child. That of his younger brother, who was arrested in September, did. The Hindustan Times reports she reportedly didn't provide the name of the younger uncle because he allegedly threatened to kill her parents if she did so. The 10-year-old was told she had a large stone in her stomach that required surgery and was unaware she gave birth to a baby girl, who is in the custody of child welfare officials who will arrange her adoption.