Delhi child rape accused arrested in Bihar

 

New Delhi, 20 April 2013 (DHNS): The Delhi Police on Saturday arrested Manoj, 22, in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district for raping a five-year-old girl in east Delhi’s Gandhi Nagar.

 

Manoj Kumar was held in Chirota village with the help of Bihar Police. According to Prabhakar, deputy commissioner of police (east), he was held after his mobile phone number was put on surveillance.

 

Massive protests

“He was produced before a magistrate in Bihar and was brought to the capital on a three-day transit remand,” Prabhakar said. Manoj fled the capital hours after he kidnapped the girl on April 15.

 

The national capital winnessed massive protests against the rape. Thousands of people took to the streets to express their outrage.

 

Manoj allegedly kidnapped the girl on April 15 and held her in confinement at his ground floor flat in east Delhi’s Gandhi Nagar. He raped and brutalised the child before fleei ng to Bihar by train the same evening.

 

Manoj was brought to Delhi by flight on Saturday. The police said the sequence of events leading to the rescue of the child will unfurl only after interrogation. Investigators will also ascertain whether Manoj had an accomplice. Meanwhile, the victim is learnt to be stable.

 

She was transferred from Swami Dayanand Hospital in Shahdara to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Friday. She had sustained grievous injuries in perineum and a colostomy procedure was performed.

 

“She has been put on intravenous fluids and antibiotics,” said D K Sharma, AIIMS medical superintendent.

 

The five-year-old rape victim is conscious, alert and all her medical parameters are within normal limit, doctors said. She will, however, require corrective surgery.

 

She was examined by a team of specialist doctors from paediatric surgery, paediatric medicine and gynaecology, and has been hospitalised under paediatric surgery.

 

BJP leader Sushma Swaraj and Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad visited the child on Saturday. Swaraj had a detailed discussion with medical experts.“ Doctors are doing their best. I think we should hang these criminals and save our children,” she posted on Twitter. Azad visited the hospital around 11 am. He assured the child’s parents of all support.