A second test to confirm the pregnancy of the teenager who fled to Darbhanga from Muzaffarpur has givennegative result.

The girl, said to be a resident of Delhi, was examined at Shri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH) for the second time last Friday. The report states that the girl is not pregnant.

After the girl, aged around 18 years old, was brought back to Muzaffarpur Childline from the Darbhanga branch of the rehabilitation centre, a test was conducted on her at the Muzaffarpur sadar hospital. The first test pointed at alleged sexual assault and subsequent pregnancy.

The government ordered an inquiry. Criminal Investigation Department’s inspector-general (weaker section) Arvind Pandey had asked the Darbhanga senior superintendent of police Kumar Aikley to conduct an investigation. “The report of the SSP is awaited,” Pandey said.

Muzaffarpur district magistrate Anupam Kumar said the second test was conducted under the supervision of a medical board, comprising the doctors of SKMCH. “The latest medical test report has ruled out pregnancy,” he told The Telegraph over phone from Muzaffarpur on Tuesday.

The report has raised questions about the credential of the doctors at the sadar hospital where the first test confirming pregnancy was conducted. That test had concluded the girl was pregnant for over three months.

Anupam Kumar said the medical board was constituted on the initiative of the district administration after a controversy over the pregnancy came to fore last week.

The SKMCH principal, D.K. Singh, said a three-member medical board comprising Bipin Kumar, Supriya Kumari and N.P. Sinha had conducted the second test on the girl. “There is no reason not to believe the findings of the board that supervised the medical test,” Singh said.

The principal claimed that the board was of the opinion that the girl was not pregnant even a few months ago.

Civil surgeon Gyan Bhushan refused to comment. “The doctors of the SKMCH would be the right people to comment on the matter, as the test was conducted there,” he said. The girl fled to Darbhanga from the Muzaffarpur-based North Raksha Grih (a home for destitute) in September. A Government Railway Police team rescued her and another girl who fled with her from the railway station and handed them over to Darbhanga Childline. Later she was shifted to Muzaffarpur Childline.

A team of the Bihar State Women’s Commission also visited Muzaffarpur Childline and recorded the girl’s statement. Subsequently an FIR was lodged and North Raksha Grih’s warden Mamta and her assistant Rakhi were arrested. Produced before the chief judicial magistrate, the two were remanded in judicial custody at the Shaheed Khudiram Bose Memorial Central Jail for two months.