Overview
- News18 reports the child's grandfather has been identified as the prime accused and detained, with a formal arrest expected, a development not yet officially confirmed.
- Police say the girl was abducted from a railway shed in Tarakeswar where she slept beside her grandmother, with the assailant reportedly cutting through a mosquito net.
- The child was found naked and bleeding near the Tarakeswar railway high drain the next afternoon and remains in critical condition at Tarakeswar Gramin Hospital.
- An FIR has been filed under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, and Hooghly Rural Police state an investigation is underway.
- Opposition BJP leaders allege initial refusal or delay by police and mishandling by hospital staff, intensifying political scrutiny of the response.