In an absolute shocker, a ten-month-old girl died
after she was flung from a cab on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway in Maharashtra’s
Palghar district while her mother was allegedly molested on Saturday morning.

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Woman was pushed out too

The woman too was pushed out of the vehicle and sustained serious injuries, said a police official.
The woman and her daughter were returning from Pelhar to Poshere in Wada tehsil in a cab which they shared with some other passengers, she said.

Toddler died on the spot

When the woman resisted, they snatched the toddler from her and flung her out of the moving cab. The toddler died on the spot, the official said.

She has been hospitalized. A case was registered at Mandvi police station and police were looking for the culprits who were yet to be unidentified, the official said.

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Similar incident in Palghar

This comes only a week a after a court in Palghar district sentenced a 47-year-old man to rigorous 10-year jail for raping a minor girl in 2016.

Special Public Prosecutor Jayprakash Patil told the court that the girl, then aged seven, and the accused resided in the same locality. The victim’s father also worked as a security guard.

On February 3, 2016, when the girl’s mother went to fetch water, the accused took the victim to his house under some pretext and raped her.

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The girl later complained of stomach pain and informed about the incident to her mother following which a police complaint was filed and the accused was arrested, the prosecution told the court.

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