India, Nov. 9 -- A four-year-old girl reportedly became the victim of sexual abuse in West Bengal's Hooghly district, near Kolkata. The minor was asleep beside her grandmother when she was abducted and later found critically injured near Tarakeshwar in Hooghly district.

The child, who is from the Banjara community, had been sleeping under a mosquito net on a cot near the Railway shed in Tarakeshwar when the attacker struck, an NDTV report said, citing a police.

The victim's family said the perpetrator had cut through the mosquito net and carried the child away while she was asleep.

The girl's grandmother, visibly distressed and holding up the torn net, said the incident took place around 4 am "She was sleeping with me. Someone took her...