<p>A case of sexual assault was registered against unidentified persons after a six-month-old girl was brought in a profusely bleeding state at a civic-run hospital here, police said today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>On January 27, the bleeding baby girl was brought to the civic-run KEM Hospital.<br /><br />Police were reportedly notified about the case but they refused to register an FIR, stating that the injury to the girl's private part was caused by a rat bite.<br /><br />As the medical report by the doctors confirmed that there were signs of forceful penetration with an unknown object, an FIR was registered against some unknown persons under section 3 (penetrative sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and IPC section 354 (outraging the modesty of a woman), Suresh Unawane, senior inspector at Shivaji Park police station in Mumbai said.<br /><br />"There was no delay in filing the FIR. We were waiting for the medical report," Unawane claimed.<br /><br />The baby's mother is a street vendor.</p>
<p>A case of sexual assault was registered against unidentified persons after a six-month-old girl was brought in a profusely bleeding state at a civic-run hospital here, police said today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>On January 27, the bleeding baby girl was brought to the civic-run KEM Hospital.<br /><br />Police were reportedly notified about the case but they refused to register an FIR, stating that the injury to the girl's private part was caused by a rat bite.<br /><br />As the medical report by the doctors confirmed that there were signs of forceful penetration with an unknown object, an FIR was registered against some unknown persons under section 3 (penetrative sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and IPC section 354 (outraging the modesty of a woman), Suresh Unawane, senior inspector at Shivaji Park police station in Mumbai said.<br /><br />"There was no delay in filing the FIR. We were waiting for the medical report," Unawane claimed.<br /><br />The baby's mother is a street vendor.</p>