India, Oct. 17 -- A 15-year-old girl delivered a baby at a hospital in Gurugram's Sohna after she was allegedly raped by a 22-year-old man she befriended on Instagram, police said on Saturday.

The incident came to light when the girl complained of severe abdominal pain and was rushed to a sub-divisional hospital in Sohna. Doctors informed her parents that she was pregnant and experiencing labour pain, police said.

Neither the girl nor her parents were aware of the pregnancy, as there had been hardly any visible physical changes, a senior police official said.

Hospital authorities alerted the police, following which a team of investigators reached the hospital and recorded statements from the girl, her parents and the doctors.

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