Doctors treating the minor girl who was gang-raped in Mandsaur on June 26 have said that her condition was improving and she was being counselled by psychiatrists to recover from the trauma.
The eight-year-old, who was raped and left severely injured by two persons on June 26, is undergoing treatment at Indore's Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital.
MYH superintendent V S Pal said that the help of psychiatrists was being taken to ensure that she recovered as soon as possible from the trauma caused by the incident.
"After the incident, the child was in shock and was very scared. But now her face shows less fear than earlier," Pal, himself a psychiatrist, told reporters today.
After counselling the minor victim, psychiatrist Swati Prasad said, "The child is talking about things which she likes, such as her favourite game, food and TV serial etc. These are very positive signs which means she is recovering from the trauma. Gradually her mental state will get stronger."
Mumbai-based senior paediatric surgeon Ravi Ramadwar, who was called in by the state government to help the victim, said that her treatment was headed in the right direction.
"The girl's treatment is moving in the right direction and it is expected that she will come out of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) soon," Ramadwar said.
Meanwhile, the BJP's national spokesman Shahnawaz Hussain, who met the victim and doctors at MYH, said that she was the "daughter of the entire country" and all 125 crore Indians were with her.
"The trial of this case will be conducted in a fast track court," Hussain said.
He added that the Narendra Modi government had approved the ordinance which has a provision of death penalty for those convicted of raping minors below the age of 12.
The BJP leader praised residents of Ringnod, the village from which one of the accused, Irfan, hails, for proclaiming that they would not allow his body (in case he is given the death sentence) to be buried in the village graveyard.
"It is good that the people of victim's village have said that they will not let his body be buried in their village," he said.
On Saturday evening, Congress workers led by senior party leader Jyotiraditya Scindia, had taken out a candle march in protest against the Mandsaur gangrape case.
The protesters alleged that Madhya Pradesh had become "the national capital of rape" under the BJP government.
Earlier, a controversy erupted when a BJP MLA from Indore, Sudarshan Gupta, along with Mandsaur-Neemuch MP Sudhir Gupta, met the victim's parents.
A video of the June 29 meeting purportedly showed the MLA telling the victim's parents that they should thank the MP for visiting them.
MLA Gupta, however, claimed that the video had been doctored by the Congress.
"The Mandsaur MP and I were the first to meet the victim's family and we had assured them all possible assistance. This, however, was not shown in the video. The Congress is running out of issues and is creating a hue and cry by doctoring the video," he alleged.
Meanwhile in Bhopal, the BJP's minority cell leaders, led its state working committee member Mohammed Taufiq, staged a protest at Iqbal Maidan and demanded the death penalty for the two accused.
A similar protest was also held in Mandsaur.
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