Update on the brutal rape and mutilation of a 5-year-old girl in Delhi: Amid large protests at the Delhi hospital where the five-year-old rape survivor is fighting for her life, a police officer was today filmed slapping a woman demonstrator.


Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar told NDTV that Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Bani Singh Ahlawat, who slapped the woman protester, has been suspended.


There was total chaos at the East Delhi hospital when Congress leaders Sandeep Diskhit and AK Walia arrived to meet the child's family. Since the morning, workers from Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party had clashed with the police, posted at the hospital  to check the seething crowd of demonstrators.


Doctors at Swami Dayanand Hospital treating the girl said the victim suffered serious injuries to her private parts resulting in serious infection. The girl is in Intensive Care Unit. They said the child's condition is very critical and some foreign objects were found inside her.


The victim's family alleged that police were reluctant in filing a rape case and they acted late in locating her.