5-year-old girl's barbarous rape stirs protests in Delhi

A fiveyearold who was kept hostage mutilated and raped by her neighbour is fighting for her life in Delhi The barbarous attack on her she was violated with pieces of a candle and a bottle have outraged the city triggering large protests against politicians and the police at the hospital where she was being treated Protesters shout antigovernment and antipolice slogans during a demonstration against the rape of a fiveyearold girl outside a hospital where the toddler was first admitted PicAFP The man who mutilated her is missing he had moved just a few days ago into the building in East Delhi where the child and her family lived in one room In the evening the child was moved at her familyrsquos request from Swami Dayanand Hospital to All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS Demonstrators shouted slogans and gestured in front of the Government Secretariat and Presidential Palace in the Capital during a protest calling for better safety for women following the gang rape of a student last December File pic ldquoThis is the first time that I have seen such barbarism with a fiveyearoldrdquo said RK Bansal a doctor who treated her before she was moved The child went missing on Monday evening while she was playing near her home and was found on Wednesday evening battered and bleeding in the basement It was not the police who found her Neighbours who heard her cries broke into the locked room By then the abductor had disappeared Cop bribed girlrsquos kin Offering a weak defence the police said that it searched public parks in the neighbourhood but did not think to search the many rooms in the building where the family lived When she was found her father says the police offered him Rs 2000 ldquoto keep quietrdquo He said they advised him ldquoThank God that she has been found aliverdquo Those allegations and the policersquos insistence that it had acted promptly to help the family left protesters seething at the Swami Dayanand hospital where the child was admitted after she was found A police officer was caught on camera slapping a woman demonstrator he has been suspended The protesters many of who belonged to Arvind Kejriwalrsquos Aam Aadmi Party targeted politicians who visited the hospital shouting angry slogans A Delhi ministerrsquos car was vandalised Since December when the fatal gang rape of a student on a Delhi bus stunned and incensed the country the cityrsquos police and government have vowed that no effort will be spared to protect women But a slew of attacks many of them against young girls prove that despite the introduction of tougher antirape laws and pledges of better policing little has changed for a city titled ldquothe rape capitalrdquo of the country Rapist wanted to kill the girl Speaking to mediapersons RK Bansal medical superintendent Swami Dayanand Hospital said ldquoUpon examination we found a 200 ml bottle and two or three pieces of candle inserted into her private parts This is the first time that I have seen such barbarism with a fiveyearoldrdquo He added ldquoThere were injuries on her lips and cheeks and bruise marks on her neck suggesting that attempts were made to strangle her Her blood pressure was way below normal and she had fever when she was admittedrdquo he said ACP suspended for slapping girl An assistant commissioner ACP of Delhi Police was suspended for slapping a 17yrold girl protester who was trying to meet the rape victim at the hospital ACP Bani Singh Ahlawat posted at Khajuri Khas area of east Delhi was suspended with immediate effect for slapping and pushing Beenu Rawat a Class XII student said a senior police officer Rawat a resident of east Delhirsquos Shahdara was trying to enter the emergency ward of the Swami Dayanand hospital when she was assaulted Sandeep Dikshit heckled at hospital East Delhi MP Sandeep Dikshit and Delhi Health Minister AK Walia were heckled by protesters at Swami Dayanand hospital where they had gone to meet the victim As soon as Dikshit and Walia arrived at the hospital some protesters including Aam Aadmi Party AAP members tried to stop them from entering the hospital premises and manhandled them Dikshit and Walia arrived a few minutes before the girl was shifted to Lok Nayak hospital from Swami Dayanand hospital for better treatment Celebs decry minorrsquos rape in Capital People from various walks of life have condemned the rape of a fiveyearold girl calling it lsquoevilrsquo and lsquoshamefulrsquo and even labelling the capital as lsquobalatkaarrsquo rape Delhi Celebs took to Twitter to express their horror and views Tweet talk Abhay Deol AbhayDeol A fiveyearold girl was raped several times by her neighbour who abducted and kept her hostage inside his flat in New Delhi for two days This is evil Manoj Bajpayee BajpayeeManoj Shame shame It happens again in Delhi How can you even describe this brutality Pritish Nandy PritishNandy So rape happens because girls wear sexy clothes drink and smoke na I guess the 5yrold was guilty too Vishal Dadlani V1SH4L What on earth is India coming to The police now offers hushmoney to parents whose little daughters are raped Those cops need to be hung Ehsaan Noorani EhsaanSEL Appallingwhat happened in Delhi Cursed are men who do this Pooja Bedi poojabeditweets Indiarsquos rape capital has a woman CM She should rule with an iron fist an iron rod whip and noose Until then nothinghaschanged or will Arvind Gaur ArvindGaur Shame rape Delhi Itrsquos not lsquodildaarrsquo Delhi itrsquos lsquobalatkaarrsquo Delhi Whatrsquos the meaning of law and order The 5yearold is in critical condition after being brutally tortured and raped