A four-year-old girl was reportedly abducted late Friday night and sexually assaulted in West Bengal's Hooghly, NDTV reported. The victim was found in a critical condition the following afternoon.

A senior official from the Hooghly rural police said that the child was sleeping on a cot under a mosquito net at a railway shelter in Tarakeshwar when the incident occurred.

The family informed the police that the assailant kidnapped the child by cutting through the mosquito net.

The victim’s grandmother said that she did not realise the child had been taken until around 4 am

"She was sleeping with me. Around 4 am., someone took her away.They cut the mosquito net and took her away. She was found naked," the grandmother said.

"We live on the streets because they have demolished our houses.

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