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Rape of 5-Year-Old: Main Accused Sent to 5-Day Police Custody

A 5-year-old girl was raped repeatedly by two men (one of them her neighbor) who abducted her and kept her hostage inside his flat in Delhi (India) for 2 days. According to police, she was abducted from outside her house on April 15. Currently, she's recovering in a Delhi hospital. Doctors say, objects were inserted into her private parts by the molester. 'Follow the Story' for further updates.

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26 April: Main accused in police custody till April 30

A Delhi court sent Manoj Sah, the prime accused in a 5-yr-old Delhi girl's rape-and-torture case, to 5 days' police custody to confront him with Pradeep, another accused in the case.

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Police has sought Sah's custody to take him to his native village for the recovery of clothes he was wearing at the time of the crime.

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While seeking his five-day custody, police also said that they need to find out the movements of the accused from the point of them leaving Delhi and reaching Bihar.

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Sah, from whose rented room the girl was rescued two days after she went missing April 15, however, blamed Pradeep for the brutal attack on the child.

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22 April: Second accused arrested from Bihar, victim’s condition stable

Women activists of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party are stopped by police near the residence of ruling Congress party president Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the rape of a 5-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, Sunday, April 21, 2013. The girl was allegedly kidnapped, raped and tortured by a man and then left alone in a locked room in India’s capital for two days. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

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One more person allegedly involved in the rape of a five-year-old girl here a week ago has been arrested, police said.

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During his interrogation, prime accused Manoj Kumar had said that he had an accomplice during the crime.

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Pradeep is a native of Darbhanga district. He was arrested from Badhaiya area of the state's Lakhi Sarai district, confirmed Bihar DGP Abhyanand Monday morning.

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The girl was raped on April 15 in a building in east Delhi's Gandhinagar locality where the victim and accused Manoj lived and she was rescued 40 hours later on ...

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Doctors at the capital's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) said the child's fever is down, antibiotics are working and that she is on a semi-solid diet.

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20th April: Updates: 3 cops suspended, accused nabbed in Bihar, victim still critical

A five-year-old rape victim is moved to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences hospital from Swami Dayanand hospital for treatment in New Delhi on April 19.

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DP suspended 1 of its ACP for slapping a young girl inside a hospital during a protest against the brutal rape of a five-year-old girl and 2 other officials on ...

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

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Manoj Kumar was apprehended from Chiknouta, his in-law's village, at around 2 am from here in Bihar, about 50 kms from Patna.

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The youth was arrested by a team from Delhi with the help of local police. The accused, who has come here by a train from Delhi, was traced after tracking ...

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

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Protest in Delhi over the rape, woman protester slapped by ACP, suspended

The barbarous attack on her have outraged the city, triggering large protests against politicians and the police at the hospital where she was being treated.

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Amid large protests at the Delhi hospital where a five-year-old rape survivor is fighting for her life, a police officer has been filmed slapping a woman demonstrator.

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East Delhi MP Sandeep Dikshit and Delhi health minister A K Walia were heckled by protesters at Swami Dayanand hospital where they had gone to meet a five-year-old rape victim.

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Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar told NDTV that Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Bani Singh Ahlawat, who slapped the woman protester, has been suspended.

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B.S. Ahlawat slapped the girl at least four times inside the hospital when she and others were on protest. He has been suspended with immediate effect by Police Commissioner

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Father says Police offered bribe, advised him to 'thank god'

The father of the little girl who was held raped by her neighbor said that police had offered him Rs. 2,000 to keep quiet, and advised him to "thank god that his daughter was alive"

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The allegation that police paid the girl’s father bribe to cover up the incident was condemned by the newly formed Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders.

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We went to the police to register an FIR but they refused. They never tried to find her, and instead drove us away," the father of the victim told reporters.

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The father said that when the family finally found the girl on Wednesday, the police told the family to not highlight the issue, and offered them Rs.2000 to keep mum

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The police has denied that they tried to hush up the case. They said they began searching for the child as soon as her parents complained that she was missing.

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5-year-old girl raped, fights for life

In a shocking incident, a five-year-old girl was repeatedly raped by her neighbour for two days in Gandhi Nagar area in Delhi, India.

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Reports suggest that the girl was kidnapped on April 15 and confined in a room where he sexually assaulted the girl for two days.

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"Upon examination, we found a bottle and pieces of a candle inserted into her private parts... this is the first time that I have seen such barbarism with a five-year-old," said RK Bansal, Medical Superintendent, Swami Dayanand Hospital.

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Police said they suspected the hand of a tenant who had rented a room from the victim’s family a week before the incident and was currently untraceable.

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Doctors attending to her say she is in critical condition and seems to have been brutally assaulted. "When we saw the girl, she was not in a good condition. She was very scared."

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Reports say she was rescued by a passer-by who heard her cries on Wednesday. No arrests have been made.

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Infographic: Rape cases on the rise

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Delhi gang-rape story

The whole story about the Delhi Gangrape case in which the 23-year-old paramedical student was raped in a moving bus and then thrown off off it. She died on 29th Dec, triggering massive protest.

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