A 23-year-old speech and hearing impaired woman was raped and her mobile phone stolen in Kalyan in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Sunday.

The incident took place at around 5:30am on Friday when the woman, who was on her way to work, was dragged into a dilapidated railway structure near Subhash Chowk by the unidentified accused and raped, an MFC police station official said.