NEW DELHI: Rapid Action Force teams have been deployed in Delhi's Mangolpuri area, where protests against a seven-year-old girl's alleged rape at a government school turned violent yesterday. The area is calm today and the extra police presence is said to be a precautionary measure.
On Friday, around 500 people gathered outside the hospital where the girl is being treated in protest and threw stones and bricks damaging several buses, police patrol vans and shops in the area. Police used lathi-charge and fired tear gas shells to disperse them. Seventeen people have been arrested and charged with rioting and destroying public property.
The girl is a Class 2 student in a primary school run by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). Her family has said in a police complaint that she was raped on Thursday afternoon.
The North Delhi Municipal Corporation has ordered an internal inquiry into the incident and has been asked to submit a report.
The police have made no arrests yet but have detained 10 men who had access to the school building, including a security guard and two male teachers of the school, and are questioning them.
The girl was taken to hospital on Friday morning, and doctors said she was in a stable condition, though traumatised. The police have sought the help of a non-government organisation to counsel the child as they try to get more details about the incident from her.
Expressing her shock at the incident, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has ordered better security and supervision in schools in the capital. She said, "The incident is inhuman and shameful. It is a shocking incident. The municipal corporation must strengthen their existing security infrastructure in the schools."
There were widespread protests for days in Delhi after the brutal gang-rape of a 23-year-old medical student in a moving bus in December last year, demanding better security for women in the national capital. The police have made promises since, the government has brought an Ordinance on new laws on sexual assault, but cases of rape and assault of women have continued with alarming regularity in Delhi.
On Friday, around 500 people gathered outside the hospital where the girl is being treated in protest and threw stones and bricks damaging several buses, police patrol vans and shops in the area. Police used lathi-charge and fired tear gas shells to disperse them. Seventeen people have been arrested and charged with rioting and destroying public property.
The girl is a Class 2 student in a primary school run by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). Her family has said in a police complaint that she was raped on Thursday afternoon.
The North Delhi Municipal Corporation has ordered an internal inquiry into the incident and has been asked to submit a report.
The police have made no arrests yet but have detained 10 men who had access to the school building, including a security guard and two male teachers of the school, and are questioning them.
The girl was taken to hospital on Friday morning, and doctors said she was in a stable condition, though traumatised. The police have sought the help of a non-government organisation to counsel the child as they try to get more details about the incident from her.
Expressing her shock at the incident, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has ordered better security and supervision in schools in the capital. She said, "The incident is inhuman and shameful. It is a shocking incident. The municipal corporation must strengthen their existing security infrastructure in the schools."
There were widespread protests for days in Delhi after the brutal gang-rape of a 23-year-old medical student in a moving bus in December last year, demanding better security for women in the national capital. The police have made promises since, the government has brought an Ordinance on new laws on sexual assault, but cases of rape and assault of women have continued with alarming regularity in Delhi.
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