Hooghly: A four-year-old girl from the Banjara community was abducted and allegedly sexually assaulted near Tarakeshwar in the Hooghly district of West Bengal. The child, who was asleep beside her grandmother under a mosquito net, is now in critical condition in hospital.

According to the family’s account, the girl was lying beside her grandmother on a cot near a railway shed when the perpetrator—whose identity remains unknown—cut through the mosquito net at around 4 am and took her away. The grandmother said she did not realise when the abduction happened. “She was sleeping with me. Someone took her away,” she said, adding that when the child was found, she was naked. ADVERTISEMENT

The victim was discovered later that afternoon near a high drain at Tarakeshwar railway station, lying i

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