Condition of rape victim, 5, improves

The condition of a five- year-old girl who was allegedly kidnapped, raped and tortured by a man and then left alone in a locked room in India’s capital for two days has improved, a doctor said yesterday, as protests continued over the authorities’ handling of the case.

The girl was in critical condition when she was transferred on Thursday from a local hospital to the largest government-run hospital in the country.

But DK Sharma, medical superintendent of the state-run hospital in New Delhi where the girl was being treated, said yesterday that she was responding well to treatment and her condition had stabilised.