A 19-year-old tribal woman, travelling in a private cab from Sopara Phata to Manor, jumped out of the vehicle after her infant daughter was allegedly thrown out of it, on Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway on Saturday. Her 10-month-old daughter succumbed to her injuries. The woman alleged that she was molested by co-passengers in the cab.

Assistant Commissioner of Police Ramchandra Deshmukh said that they are yet to record the statement of the woman. “We have been told that she was travelling in a car with her daughter. When she fell out of the cab with her child, there was a traffic policeman who immediately went to rescue her,” he said.