BHOPAL, Oct. 6 -- The Madhya Pradesh high court has ordered a probe by a special investigation team (SIT) into the alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl at Bageshwar Dham in Chhatarpur district after a forensic report indicated that the man arrested for the assault was not the biological father of the foetus.

Justice Ajay Kumar Nirankari ordered the probe after the suspect, Raju Jatav, who has been in jail, approached the high court for bail and cited the forensic report. The order is dated September 25 but was uploaded on Monday.

"The SIT will now have to ascertain the full sequence of sexual assault on the minor and identify the biological father of the foetus," the court said in its directions to the Chhatarpur superintendent of police ...