The police arrested a 70-year-old man for rape after a Class 11 student delivered a girl at a hospital in Tamil Nadu. The girl went into labour when she was writing her board exams at a government higher secondary school near Namangiripettai in Namakkal, on Monday, according to a report in Times of India. The doctors said the girl was eight months pregnant, while the police added that the girl's father died five years ago and her mother is a construction worker. The girl's elder sister lives with her husband in another district.

On Monday, the girl went to school to write her exam. The police said around 11.30am, she developed stomach pain. The girl then went to the washroom, but did not return even after 30 minutes. When the invigilator went to the washroom to check on her, the girl was lying on the floor and bleeding profusely.