Police said the minor girl belongs to tribal Mama Bheel community and her mother, a widow, works as a labourer in a mine in Patpadiya village. The woman is a resident of Jhabua district in Madhya Pradesh.
A case of rape has been lodged against an unidentified person, who is suspected to be a mining labourer, Deputy Superintend of Police Bhanwar Singh Shekhawat said, adding that efforts were on to identify the accused on the basis of the minor girl's narration.
A local said that some labourers found the girl lying near a dump of mine waste and bleeding and informed her mother, who took her to the Dabi police station and filed a complaint.