No clue yet to whereabouts of battered baby girl at AIIMS

New Delhi: Police on Friday remained clueless about the whereabouts of the parents of the two-year-old battered girl at AIIMS even as it intensified efforts to track down the man who allegedly sexually abused the teenaged girl who hospitalised the baby.

A case of kidnapping has already been registered in the case while investigators have been sent across north India to locate the parents of the abandoned girl as well as the teenager's.

"The teenager has told us many things. She had told us who she is and who her parents are. We are searching them on the basis of the girl's statement," Ajay Choudhury, Additional Commissioner (South-East), said.

The child, whose parents are untraced, is undergoing treatment at the neurosurgery ICU of AIIMS trauma centre and has been put on ventilator support after suffering two cardiac arrests in the past few days. She was brought to the hospital on January 18.

A senior police official said the baby girl was handed over about five times before reaching the teenager.

The teenaged girl had run away from her house claiming that she could not stand the physical abuse at home by her father. She had eloped allegedly with a 22-year-old married man and a case of kidnapping was registered.

The girl told police that the child got bruises on her body when she tried to prevent her from running around. The fractures were caused after the child fell in the bathroom, the official said.