A minor tribal girl, studying in a State-run residential school in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district, has been found pregnant, the police said on Saturday.
The pregnancy of the Class IX student was detected during a routine health check-up on Friday, Udala Sub-Divisional Police Officer S.R. Mohapatra said.
A complaint was lodged by the school headmaster the same day. A case had been registered and probe into the matter is on, he said.
The tribal girl has been admitted to a hospital in Baripada, where tests confirmed her pregnancy, the police said.
In her statement to police, the minor girl named a youth as accused, the SDPO said. The youth, who hails from a nearby village, is missing and efforts are on to locate him, Mr. Mohapatra said.
The incident comes to light days after a Class VI student of a government residential school in the district was found to be six month pregnant.
A teenage boy of the school was apprehended and sent to a juvenile home on Friday after the girl accused him of raping her.
Several incidents
Incidents of sexual abuse of minor girls in government residential schools have been reported from different districts of the State in the recent past.
Three minor girls, including two inmates of State-run residential schools, were found pregnant in Dhenkanal, Kalahandi and Jajpur districts last month. A 14-year-old student of a residential government school had delivered a baby in Kandhamal district last month.