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Delhi police question two men after girl of four raped | Delhi police question two men after girl of four raped |
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Indian police are questioning two men in connection with the rape of a four-year-old girl in the capital, Delhi. | Indian police are questioning two men in connection with the rape of a four-year-old girl in the capital, Delhi. |
The city's deputy commissioner of police, Vijay Singh, told the BBC that no arrests had been made yet. | The city's deputy commissioner of police, Vijay Singh, told the BBC that no arrests had been made yet. |
The child is in intensive care after being found unconscious by railway tracks on Friday night. She had surgery for extensive injuries, doctors say. | The child is in intensive care after being found unconscious by railway tracks on Friday night. She had surgery for extensive injuries, doctors say. |
The attack raises fresh questions over women's safety in Delhi after a 2012 gang rape and murder shocked the world. | The attack raises fresh questions over women's safety in Delhi after a 2012 gang rape and murder shocked the world. |
The girl, who was found near her home in a poor neighbourhood in the north of the city, was slashed and had severe injuries on her body. | The girl, who was found near her home in a poor neighbourhood in the north of the city, was slashed and had severe injuries on her body. |
Her family allege she was lured with an offer of food or sweets by a group of men. | Her family allege she was lured with an offer of food or sweets by a group of men. |
Delhi commissioner for women Swati Maliwal, who visited the child in hospital, described her injuries as "horrific". | Delhi commissioner for women Swati Maliwal, who visited the child in hospital, described her injuries as "horrific". |
At the scene: Vineet Khare, Keshav Puram, BBC Hindi | |
"What happened to us was bad, reprehensible," the victim's grandmother told me as she broke into tears. | |
She had her grandson of a few months clasped in her arm, while his five-year-old sister played nearby, unaware of the tragedy that befell her younger sibling last week. | |
The family lives in what resembles a small box, one of the hundreds lining a railway track, a familiar sight in urban India. To reach the house, one has to negotiate short, narrow alleys and clogged drains. | |
Locals said the incident happened across the railway track, a depressed piece of land littered with caked human faeces, where locals relieved themselves. | |
Most men in the area do small temporary jobs while women work as help in houses nearby. Shops selling liquor is a worry. The culprits were said to be drunk. | |
"Drunk men tease women when they go out to relieve themselves. There are no toilets," one woman said. | |
"We are worried about our children. We do not let them out for fear they might be taken away by unknown men." | |
The gang rape and murder of a student in 2012 in Delhi led to protests and new anti-rape laws in the country. | The gang rape and murder of a student in 2012 in Delhi led to protests and new anti-rape laws in the country. |
However, brutal sexual attacks against women and children continue to be reported across the country. | |
In 2014, a Delhi woman alleged that she had been raped by the driver of her Uber taxi. | |
In July, police arrested a man who confessed to sexually assaulting and murdering 30 children from in and around Delhi. | In July, police arrested a man who confessed to sexually assaulting and murdering 30 children from in and around Delhi. |
More than 1,500 cases of rape have been recorded by the police this year but there are believed to be many others which go unreported. | More than 1,500 cases of rape have been recorded by the police this year but there are believed to be many others which go unreported. |
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