A three-year-old girl was allegedly tortured and needles inserted in her body by a man, in whose house her mother used to work in Purulia district, police said on Saturday.
As her condition is serious she has been referred her to Bankura Medical College Hospital, the Purlia hospital doctors said. The girl's mother used to work in the house Sanatan Goswami at Nadiara village in the district, the police said.
The mother in her complaint had alleged that Goswami tortured her daughter and also sexually assaulted.