New Delhi:
There was outrage in India today over the rape of a five-year-old girl in Delhi, who is now in critical condition in hospital.
The Delhi Police has suspended two officers for allegedly misbehaving with her father, who says he was offered Rs 2000 by cops to buy his silence.
"The Station House Officer of Gandhinagar, Dharampal Singh, and First Investigating Officer Mahavir Singh have been suspended pending enquiry because there are allegations that their behaviour with the family members was not appropriate," said Prabhakar, DCP, East Delhi, at a press conference this evening.
The statement is vastly inappropriate and insufficient for the gravity of the charges against the police.
The alleged rapist was arrested from Bihar late last night.
For three days, the child was kept locked up and assaulted by a neighbour in a basement just below her home. She was found on Wednesday evening not by the police but by other residents of the building. (
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The police today said though it had combed public parks in the neighbourhood, it did not think to search for the child in homes near her own because the family said it did not have any suspects.
This afternoon, while preparations were being made to move her from an East Delhi hospital to AIIMS, protestors shouted slogans and encircled politicians who met the family at Swami Dayanand Hospital.
A senior officer was filmed slapping a young woman demonstrator. (
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Read) He has been suspended.