Maharashtra: 10-Month-Old Flung Out Of Cab, Dies. Her Mother 'Molested' By Driver, Co-Passengers

A woman and her child were on their way from Pelhar to Poshere in Wada tehsil in a cab, where the incident occurred.

New Delhi: A ten-month-old girl died after she was flung out of a speeding cab on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway in Maharashtra's Palghar district on Saturday morning, while her mother was allegedly molested. According to a PTI report, the woman too was pushed out of the vehicle and sustained serious injuries. 

The woman and her daughter were on their way from Pelhar to Poshere in Wada tehsil in a cab which they shared with some other passengers. While they were travelling, the cab driver and some co-passengers allegedly molested the woman.

When the woman resisted, they snatched away the baby girl and flung her from the speeding cab, the woman told police, as per the PTI report. The child died on the spot, the woman too was pushed out of the cab. She has been hospitalised.

According to the report, a case was registered at Mandvi police station and police were looking for the culprits who were yet to be unidentified. 

In another incident reported from the state, an air-conditioner mechanic was arrested on Saturday for allegedly raping a five-year-old girl inside the lift of a residential building in Navi Mumbai. The incident occurred on Tuesday evening at Taloja, the police told PTI. 

"The accused, 19, spotted the five-year-old girl playing in the parking area of the building when he was climbing down the stairs after some AC repair work there. He took the girl inside the lift and sexually assaulted her there before leaving the place," senior inspector Jitendra Sonawane of Taloja police station was quoted by PTI.

According to the new agency, the victim rushed home on the third floor immediately after the incident and started vomiting. When her mother asked if everything was okay, she rushed downstairs and found the accused. He was held back by the security guard and other residents. 

The residents then handed him over to the police, who arrested him and registered a case against him under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) section 376 (rape) and sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, he added.

On Friday, a local court remanded him into judicial custody, Sonawane said, adding that an investigation into the case was on.

(With PTI inputs)