The condition of the five-year- old girl, who was raped and brutalised allegedly by her 22-year-old neighbour, is on Saturday stable though she has suffered serious injuries in the assault, doctors attending on her said.

AIIMS Medical Superintendent Dr D K Sharma told reporters that the child’s vital parameters are under permissible limit.

“The girl is stable, conscious, alert and talking. All her vital parameters are under permissible limit. She is not in ICU but under close monitoring,” Sharma said.

The girl, who was held captive in a house in Gandhi Nagar with no food and water, was shifted to AIIMS last evening from Swami Dayanand Hospital.

“The detailed medical examination and surgical procedure was done under general anaesthesia at 12:15 am. She was found to be having serious injuries.”

“At present her general condition is stable and she has been under close observation and monitoring. She has been put on IV fluid and antibiotics, she is conscious, alert and all her parameters are within normal limits.”

“Definitive corrective surgery will need detailed planning and will be decided after the infection is controlled,” Sharma said.

She was found to be have suffered severe injuries in her perineum and the required colostomy procedure to divert stools has been done, he said.

Delhi 5-yr-old child rape accused arrested in Bihar.

A 25-year-old youth allegedly involved in the rape of the five-year-old girl in the national capital was arrested in Muzaffarpur early on Saturday morning, police said.

Manoj Kumar was apprehended from Chiknouta, his in-law’s village, at around 2.00 AM from Muzaffarpur in Bihar, about 50 Kms from Patna.

The youth was arrested by a team from Delhi with the help of local police.

The accused, who has come Muzaffarpur by a train from Delhi, was traced after tracking his mobile phone location, police sources said.

Kumar had married recently and his wife had come to her parent’s place two days back. The accused, working as labourer in Delhi, is a native of Bharphua village of the district.

Kumar allegedly raped five-year-old girl at his rented accommodation in east Delhi’s Gandhi Nagar.

The girl and her family stayed in the same building where Kumar lived. Delhi police has registered a case and slapped charges of attempt to murder and rape among other things on Kumar, who allegedly confined the girl in his room for at least two days.

The girl, who was reported missing from 15th April, was rescued on 17th April morning from the ground floor of the building.

The girl is battling for life in AIIMS hospital in the national capital after she contracted infection from foreign objects inserted into her body.