India, Feb. 25 -- A Class-10 girl student of a government-run residential school in the Chitrakonda area of Odisha's Malkangiri district delivered a baby on Monday evening hours after she wrote her matric examination papers.

The girl, who stayed in an ashram school run by state SC/ST department gave birth to a baby boy at the Chitrakonda Sub-Divisional Hospital. The girl, who was pregnant for the past several months, attended classes and appeared for exams without the school authorities noticing her condition.

The girl's father said a teacher of her school phoned him on Monday afternoon asking him to reach school. "When I reached school I was told that she has delivered a baby. My daughter stayed in hostel and did not visit home for a l...