India, Oct. 10 -- A 14-year-old girl who was raped by her cousin and her mother have been booked in Bhopal on charges that they abandoned her newborn daughter near a railway track, police said on Thursday. The infant later died at a hospital.

The girl's mother and a nurse who helped deliver the baby on Tuesday and later allegedly left the newborn near the rail tracks have been arrested under Section 93 (abandonment of the child) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, said deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Bhopal Zone 1, Priyanka Shukla said.

Shukla added that a case was registered against the 17-year-old boy under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offence (Pocso) Act for rape.

The girl and her cousin, also a minor, have been taken into cus...