A four-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted in West Bengal’s Hooghly district on Friday night, NDTV reported.

The child, who belongs to the Banjara community, was sleeping beside her grandmother under a mosquito net on a cot near a railway shed in Tarakeshwar.

According to the grandmother, the perpetrator cut through the mosquito net and carried the child away around 4 am.

"She was sleeping with me,” NDTV quoted the grandmother as saying. “I didn’t even realise when she was taken. I don't know who the people were who took her away. They cut the mosquito net and took her away. She was found naked.”

The family had been taking shelter near the railway station after their homes were demolished, according to the grandmother.

The child was later found bleeding

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