{"id":8564,"date":"2026-04-14T00:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/?p=8564"},"modified":"2026-04-14T00:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:20:13","slug":"14-year-old-girl-gave-birth-fir-lodged-under-posco-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/14-year-old-girl-gave-birth-fir-lodged-under-posco-act\/","title":{"rendered":"14 year old girl gave birth, FIR lodged under POSCO Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>14 year old girl gave birth, FIR lodged under POSCO Act<\/p>\n<p>B.D. Kasniyal<\/p>\n<p>Pithoragarh, April 14<\/p>\n<p>After a 14 year old girl gave birth to a male child via caesarean operation in district hospital Pithoragarh today resulting in lodging of an FIR at Munsiyari police station against the father of the newly born.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the pregnant girl was suffering from labour pain, our organisation took responsibility of the girl and signed on the letter before doctors conducted the operation as no guardian was available there,&#8221; said L.S. Khati, chairperson of Bal Kalyan Samiti, a state government&#8217;s agency meant to care for needy children in\u00a0Pithoragarh district.<\/p>\n<p>According to Khati, an FIR, under section 64(1), 87 BNS and\u00a05\/6 POCSO Act has been lodged against the said father of newly born in Munsiyari police station<\/p>\n<p>The said father of newly born is working in Pune presently.<\/p>\n<p>The minor girl has said that as her parents have separated when she was very young and she was bereft of emotional support from family. She came in contact with the boy in June 2025 and went to Pune with him where she conceived.<\/p>\n<p>The Bal Kalyan Samiti chairperson said that the girl and her newborn will now be kept in special adoption agency facility after\u00a0 been discharged from hospital and will be taken care of till she turns 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 year old girl gave birth, FIR lodged under POSCO Act B.D. Kasniyal Pithoragarh, April 14 After a 14 year old girl gave birth to a male child via caesarean operation in district hospital Pithoragarh today resulting in lodging of an FIR at Munsiyari police station against the father of the newly born. &#8220;As the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,33,1284,91,59],"tags":[3973,160,1411,3972],"class_list":["post-8564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-international-political-national","category-national","category-uttarakhand","tag-l-s-khati-chairperson-of-bal-kalyan-samiti","tag-pithoragarh","tag-pithoragarh-police","tag-posco-act"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>14 year old girl gave birth, FIR lodged under POSCO Act - Northern Gazette<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"14 year old girl gave birth, FIR lodged under POSCO Act\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/14-year-old-girl-gave-birth-fir-lodged-under-posco-act\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"14 year old girl gave birth, FIR lodged under POSCO Act - Northern Gazette\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"14 year old girl gave birth, FIR lodged under POSCO Act\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/14-year-old-girl-gave-birth-fir-lodged-under-posco-act\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Northern Gazette\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-04-14T07:20:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Posco-act.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"270\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"148\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"The Northern Gazette Desk\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"The Northern Gazette Desk\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/14-year-old-girl-gave-birth-fir-lodged-under-posco-act\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/14-year-old-girl-gave-birth-fir-lodged-under-posco-act\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"The Northern Gazette Desk\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/#\/schema\/person\/4d8ec7be5e8a9073ea862e9fa63c11c4\"},\"headline\":\"14 year old girl gave birth, FIR lodged under POSCO Act\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-04-14T07:20:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/14-year-old-girl-gave-birth-fir-lodged-under-posco-act\/\"},\"wordCount\":230,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/14-year-old-girl-gave-birth-fir-lodged-under-posco-act\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Posco-act.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"L.S. 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