New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday met the 13-year-old hearing and speech impaired girl, who was brutally raped and dumped along the railway tracks in Pul Prahladpur in southeast Delhi, at AIIMS.
Sources said Sonia reached the hospital around noon. Later, BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi and former chairperson of Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Barkha Shukla Singh also visited the girl.
Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal met the survivor in the morning and raised the issue of full statehood to Delhi to curb such incidents that 'occur repeatedly'. Kejriwal said he has sought time to meet Union home minister Rajnath Singh to discuss how such incidents could be stopped.
The condition of the survivor, an orphan, is stated to be stable. In a press statement, AIIMS said the girl may need a third surgery. "She has undergone two minor surgeries in past one week and another surgery may be required to repair the damage to her private parts," said a senior doctor.
The victim lived with her maternal aunt in a village near Pul Prahladpur. She had gone missing on May 17 and was found along the railway tracks in the early hours of May 18.
DCW chief Swati Maliwal had met the girl at AIIMS on Wednesday and issued a notice to Pul Prahladpur police station asking why it was not informed about the incident.
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