Ujjain rape survivor case: Autorickshaw driver detained, five being questioned

Police have taken into a custody an autorickshaw driver in connection with the rape of a girl who was found bleeding on a street in Madhya Pradeshs Ujjain city and five others are also being questioned in the case a senior official said on ThursdayThe police have also found some blood stains on the passenger seat of the autorickshaw of the detained man he saidAccording to Ujjain police a counsellor interacted with the minor rape victim and found that the latter belongs to Satna district However police in Satna said whether she is the same girl about whom a missing persons report was filed will be confirmed after her family identifies herThe girl around 12 years of age was found bleeding on a street located under the Mahakal police station area in Ujjain on Monday After being found she was taken to a hospital where her initial medical examination confirmed that she had been raped police have saidThe girl was on Wednesday operated upon by a team of specialist doctors in Indore and her condition is said to be critical but stable they saidThe police have taken an autorickshaw driver into custody on the basis of a video footage We also found some blood stains on the passenger seat of the autorickshaw Ujjain SP Sachin Sharma saidFive others are also being questioned he saidThe girls identity is yet to be established as she could not tell her name age and address to the police properlyA counsellor interacted with the victim and found that she belongs to Satna district of Madhya Pradesh where a report of a missing girl was filed at Jaitwara police station in Satna on September 25 he saidFurther probe into the incident is being carried out through a Special Investigation Team SIT he addedMeanwhile Satnas Additional Superintendent of Police Shivesh Singh Baghel said the missing persons report about a girl aged around 13 years and wearing a school uniform had been filed at Jaitwara police stationThe minor is a little cognitivelychallenged as per the report filed by her family members he saidAfter reading the news reports and seeing the images of the victim in a school uniform police suspect that the rape survivor is the same missing girl Accordingly a team of police along with the victims family members was sent to Ujjain for her identification he saidIf they identify the victim further legal action will be taken in the matter Baghel addedMeanwhile Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday slammed the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in Madhya Pradesh over the incident alleging that girls women tribals and Dalits are not safe under the misrule of the Bharatiya Janata Party BJPThe brutality meted out to a little girl in Ujjain the city of Lord Mahakal is soulshattering After the torture she kept wandering from door to door for help for twoandahalf hours and then fell unconscious on the road but could not get help she said on XIs this the state of law and order and womens safety in Madhya Pradesh Girls women tribals and Dalits are not safe in the 20 years of BJPs misrule the Congress general secretary saidThe Congress on Wednesday accused the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh of being incapable of protecting the dignity of women and girls in the state after a video clip of the 12yearold rape victim found bleeding on a street in Ujjain went viral on social mediaAmid massive public outrage MP Home Minister Narottam Mishra announced on Wednesday that an SIT has been formed to probe the shocking crime