Daijiworld Media Network - Hooghly

Hooghly, Nov 9: A four-year-old girl was kidnapped while sleeping beside her grandmother and later sexually assaulted in Tarakeshwar, Hooghly district, late Friday night, police said.

The child, belonging to the Banjara community, was sleeping on a cot under a mosquito net near the railway shed when the attacker allegedly cut through the net and took her away. The next afternoon, she was found lying in a pool of blood near the Tarakeshwar railway high drain.

“She was sleeping with me. Around 4 am, someone took her away. I didn’t even realise when she was taken. They cut the mosquito net and took her away. She was found naked,” the girl’s grandmother said, showing the torn mosquito net.

The family, who lost their homes in a recent demolition drive, ha

See Full Page