India, Dec. 21 -- A 34-year-old man has been arrested for raping a 15-year-old girl, a Class 7 student of a private school, after she delivered a male child at the Civil Hospital in Sector 10 on Tuesday, police said. Neither the parents nor the girl was aware of her pregnancy until she entered labour, they said.

According to the police, the man used to stay in the locality and raped the girl on multiple occasions between December 2024 and March this year. He also threatened her with dire consequences if she revealed the assault to others, they said.

A senior police official said that immediately upon receiving an alert, a police team was sent to the hospital for investigation. "The victim turned out to be a minor. Looking at her conditi...