India, May 20 -- The Malwani police arrested a 30-year-old woman and her 19-year-old boyfriend on Monday for their alleged involvement in the rape and murder of her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter.

An officer from the Malwani police station said, "The child was sexually assaulted in the presence of her mother by the latter's 19-year-old boyfriend. She died suffering pain and injuries during the assault."

The incident came to light on Sunday night when the mother and her boyfriend brought the child to a hospital in Jankalyan Nagar, in Malwani, claiming that she had an epileptic attack following which she had stopped breathing. Medical examination by doctors at the hospital however revealed severe injuries on the girl's private parts whi...