DHAR(MP), Feb 27: A 17-year-old student gave birth to a premature baby boy in a school washroom during a Class 10 board examination in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district, officials said on Friday.
The incident occurred on Tuesday at a private school in Pithampur during a Mathematics paper. It has since triggered a police investigation under the POCSO Act to probe an alleged case of sexual assault.A senior police official said the teen complained of a severe stomachache two hours into the examination and sought permission to visit the washroom.When she did not return to the classroom for a long time, the invigilators checked the washroom and, to their dismay, heard the cries of a baby, an official said.
A preliminary probe revealed that the girl had been 34 weeks (eight months) pregnant, and the infant was premature, he said. The teen, in her statement to the Betma police, alleged that she met a boy while participating in a dance programme and he had sexually assaulted her. (PTI)
