Kandhamal: Minor girl student delivers baby in residential school

Tension ran high in Daringbadi in Odisha’s Kandhamal district after a Class VIII girl student of a tribal residential high school delivered a baby inside the girls’ hostel on Sunday morning.

Hours after incident, Kandhamal collector Dr Brunda D o suspended three assistant superintendents and dismissed an ANM (Auxiliary Nurse Midwifery), two matrons and two cook-cum-attendants of the girls’ hostel for dereliction of duty.

According to sources, the Class VIII student gave birth to a baby girl inside the girls’ hostel in the morning. As the news spread in the area, the irate people of the nearby villages rushed to the school and asked the school teachers and headmistress about the incident. But as they did not reply to their questions, the irate people informed Daringbadi police. On being informed, a team of policemen of Daringbadi police station led by the IIC Alesh Garadia arrived at the school and began a preliminary investigation.

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