Trigger warning: In a shocking incident, a four-year-old girl was kidnapped from her sleep late Friday night in Tarakeshwar, Hooghly, near Kolkata, and later found severely injured. Police have confirmed the child was sexually abused.

The little girl, who is reportedly part of the Banjara community, had been sleeping on a simple cot under a mosquito net beside her grandmother at a Railway shed. This shed is where the family lives, having lost their homes in recent demolitions.

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The family claims the attacker cut through the child’s mosquito net to take her away without making a sound. The grandmother, struggling to hold back tears, recounted the horrifying discovery. “She was sleeping with me. Around 4 am, someone took her away. I didn’t even realise when she was taken,” th

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