The five-year-old Delhi girl, brutalised by a neighbour earlier this week, is the fifth minor to have fallen prey to rapists this month. In many of the 393 rapes since January 1, the accused were known to the victims, police records show.
The minor was abducted on April 15 and kept hostage by her neighbour for two days without food and water and repeatedly raped in east Delhi's Gandhi Nagar, police said.
Accused Manoj Kumar, 25, was arrested from a village in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district early Saturday, police said.
The girl, rescued Wednesday, is undergoing treatment in AlIMS.
According to police records, a two-and-half year girl was raped by a 25-year-old man in west Delhi's Najafgarh on April 18.
Accused Rajdhir has been arrested.
Another five-year-old girl, studying in lower kindergarten, was sodomised by her teacher in the school premises in east Delhi's Jagatpuri area April 17.
Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat said: "A total of 393 cases of rape have been reported between January 1 and March 31."
From January 1, 2012 to Decemebr 15, 2012, a total of 661 rapes were reported in the capital, according to police records.