Surat: A four-year-old girl was raped by an unidentified man near the railway tracks opposite Ashwani Kumar crematorium here on Wednesday.
Police said the girl resides in one of the slums in Katargam. She was lured by the unidentified man by offering her chocolates and that he had picked her up from Utkalnagar.
BD Gohil, police inspector of Katargam police station, said, “The girl was abandoned by the accused on the railway tracks after committing the crime and that she was spotted by a few people from nearby locality. Police were informed about the girl’s condition. She had been sexually abused by an unidentified man.”
Gohil added, “The girl was terrified and could not narrate the incident properly. The girl was taken to New Civil Hospital (NCH) for medical examination. We have started the process to register a complaint against the accused and examining CCTV footages of the area to trace him.”