The police in India have arrested the man who happened to be a
neighbour of the mentally disabled girl who allegedly raped her and left
her for dead in New Delhi.
This incident which is the latest incident of sexual violence to spark public outrage, was made known by officials on Thursday.
According to a report by AFP, the 13-year-old orphan was
found unconscious and with multiple injuries by locals. She was found
lying near a secluded railway track on May 18, after she went missing
from her relatives’ home the day before.
She is now recovering in hospital after undergoing life-saving
surgery, following the attack in a southern district of the Indian
capital.
Speaking with AFP, an investigator in the case, Rajesh Kumar, said “We have arrested the girl’s neighbour for r*pe and on attempted murder charges. The girl is mentally disabled.”
The perpetrator raped the girl before attacking her with a sharp object, causing grievous injuries all over her body, he said.
“She had injuries and cuts on her torso, neck, private parts and limbs. He had left her to die by the railway tracks,” Kumar said.
A spokesman for Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences,
where the victim was treated, said she was stable and under observation.
“She will need more time to recover completely,” Rajeev Maikhuri said.
Opposition parties seized on the attack to criticise Prime Minister
Narendra Modi’s national government, which controls the Delhi city
police force.
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