Palghar: A 10-month-child died after a cab driver allegedly flung her outside the shared cab while allegedly molesting her mother with some other passengers in Maharashtra's Palghar district on Sunday. Police said that the accused driver has been arrested.
According to police sources, the victim and her child boarded the van which plies between Chinchoti to Vapi, between 11 am and 11:30 am on Saturday to go to Mastan Naka in Manor.
They further revealed that the woman was allegedly molested by the cab driver and some other passengers while returning from Pelhar to Poshere in Wada tehsil. The woman alleged that when she tried to resist the driver he first flung out her baby daughter, and then pushed her out of the van also.
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However, police sources said that it is being investigated whether she jumped off the vehicle with the child or whether she was pushed off and the infant flung out by the accused.
"The child was declared dead on arrival at a nearby hospital, while the woman is undergoing treatment for injuries. The driver was arrested during the day," police said.
They further revealed that the driver has been booked under sections 302 (murder) and 354 (assault or criminal force to outrage modesty of woman) of the IPC. A case has been registered at Mandvi police station and an investigation has been handed over to the Crime Branch and will be supervised by Deputy Commissioner of Police rank officials, police sources said.
