In a shocking incident, a 17-year-old girl travelling to Pandharpur was allegedly sexually assaulted while three other women occupants of the car she was travelling in were robbed of gold jewellery by two motorbike-borne unidentified persons on a highway in Maharashtra's Pune district, police said.

The incident took place around 4.15 am on Monday near Bhigwan on the highway in Daund area when the car in which the survivor and the women were travelling halted after the driver went to answer nature's call, a police officer said, according to news agency PTI. 

There were seven people in the car: the driver, aged 70; the three women, two 17-year-old boys, and the 17-year-old girl.