Shivpuri (Madhya Pradesh): A five-year-old-girl was brutally raped by her neighbor ‘Bhaiya’ when she was alone at home in Shivpuri district.

Gwalior doctors gave 28 stitches on her private parts to save her life, police said on Thursday. Shivpuri district’s Karera police station in-charge Amit Chaturvedi said that the incident occurred on February 22, when the girl was playing in her house and was alone.

The accused who is 17-years-old, is the neighbour of the family and they know each other very well and she calls her Bhaiya.

On the day the boy boozed and reached the girl’s house and asked the girl to play with him and took the girl on the roof of the house. As soon as they reached there, the boy caught hold of the girl and started the act.

The girl opposed on which the accused banged her head on the wall. The girl became frightened and unconscious. The boy bit her private part. The act was so brutal that her private part had broken and she was severely injured. When the boy was doing the act, someone in the family came to know and they rushed to the roof.

They caught him and called the police. The police detained the accused and sent him to juvenile home. The girl first was taken to nearby hospital and after primary treatment she was referred to Gwalior.

The dean of Gajraja Medical college Dr RKS Dhakad told Free Press that that the act was so brutal that the body had torn apart. Three doctors - gynaecologist, anaesthesia and plastic surgeons had done the surgery of the girl and her life was saved. The people in Shivpuri demonstrated and demanded capital punishment for the accused.