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A four-year-old miss was allegedly abducted from a railway shed and sexually assaulted astatine Tarakeshwar successful West Bengal’s Hooghly district, officials said connected Sunday (November 9, 2025).
The incidental took spot connected Saturday (November 8, 2025) erstwhile the kid was dormant beside her grandma astatine the railway shed, they said.
The insignificant was recovered with wounded marks successful the country connected Saturday (November 8, 2025) afternoon, an authoritative said.
The miss was initially taken to a section infirmary and aboriginal referred to the Chandannagar sub-divisional hospital, helium said.
A constabulary serviceman said 1 idiosyncratic has been detained successful transportation with the incidental and is being interrogated.
A lawsuit has besides been registered nether the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, helium said.
Local Trinamool Congress MLA Ramendu Singha Roy told PTI, “It is simply a shocking incident, but it took spot successful an country nether the jurisdiction of the Railways. There should beryllium much information measures and surveillance connected the portion of the railway police. We basal with the girl’s family, and the constabulary person started a probe.”
National Commission for Women subordinate Archana Majumdar said it has taken suo motu cognisance of the incident, but “we volition analyse the ineligible parameters, arsenic it besides comes nether the jurisdiction of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights. If permitted, I volition sojourn the household successful a time oregon two.”
Meanwhile, Leader of the Opposition successful West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari alleged that the Tarakeshwar constabulary were initially reluctant to registry a archetypal accusation study (FIR) implicit the incident.
In a station connected X, Mr. Adhikari accused the constabulary of “burying the crime” to shield the State's “fake instrumentality and bid representation by suppressing the truth”.
“Mamata Banerjee, you are a Failed Chief Minister. Under your rule, West Bengal’s instrumentality & bid has deed ROCK BOTTOM," helium alleged successful the post.
BJP activists besides staged a protestation objection extracurricular the Tarakeshwar constabulary station, demanding stringent punishment for the perpetrators.
