Delhi gangrape victim has intestinal damage, still critical

New Delhi: The condition of the girl who was gangraped in a moving bus in Delhi is still critical. She is fighting for her life in the ICU of the Safdarjung hospital after suffering intestinal damage during the horrific assault. The doctors attending to her said that she was hit by a blunt object and suffered injuries to her abdomen and intestines. “The victim has injury on her face and abdomen. She was hit with some blunt object. She is critical. Her intestine is damaged. Her life is still in danger. She is in shock. The girl is on ventilator support,” one of the hospital officials told CNN-IBN. The bus in which a girl was gang-raped in national capital on Sunday night was found in a school in South Delhi this afternoon. Four suspects have also been detained by Delhi police. [caption id=“attachment_560496” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Representational image[/caption]The incident took place Sunday night, when the victim, a para-medical student and her friend, boarded the bus from Munirka to go to Dwarka, after watching a movie. Police said that around five to seven bus crew started misbehaving with the girl a few minutes after she boarded the bus, which had no other passengers. The victim’s friend tried to prevent the men from molesting her, but the men beat him up and sexually assaulted the girl. The accused then threw the girl and her friend out of the bus near Mahipalpur in south Delhi’s Vasant Vihar area. Both victims were rushed to Safdarjung Hospital by a PCR van. While the girl battles for life, her friend was discharged and police have recorded his statement and registered a case. The boy’s uncle said, “Five to seven persons attacked the couple.” “When my nephew tried to save the girl, he was beaten with iron rods… the girl was then gang-raped,” he said. Meanwhile, the chairperson of the National Commission for Women, Mamta Sharma, said she would talk to chief minister Sheila Dikshit on the issue. “We will talk to the chief minister, take cognizance of the matter and inquire into it, as also keep tabs on the police investigations," Sharma said. “Such incidents are on the rise in the capital and this is due to the ignorance of the government as well the police force. If an incident like this can take place in the thickly populated Munirka area, it just shows that the police is not alert," she said. Sharma said the girl’s “male friend may have been involved with the accused.” Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said that “neither the home ministry nor Delhi Police are able to check such incidents” which have been on the rise. “Delhi’s law and order is being handled very irresponsibly by the Delhi government,” he said. With inputs from IANS