Demonstrators shout slogans as they try to cross a police barricade during a protest outside police headquarters in New Delhi. (Reuters)

Protests have erupted in Delhi today demanding justice for the five-year-old girl Delhi girl , who was brutally raped in Gandhi Nagar area, and punishment for policemen for their insensitivity in dealing with the case even as police arrested the main accused from Bihar's Muzaffarpur district. ( Condition of five-year-old Delhi rape victim stable )

In a throwback to scenes of December last in the wake of gangrape of a girl in a moving bus, protesters clashed with the police when they tried to break the barricades and enter into the Delhi Police headquarters near the ITO in central Delhi, where the main roads were closed to traffic. People also staged demonstrations at various places in the national capital, including the residences of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde.

Demonstrations were also held at AIIMS where the girl is undergoing treatment and outside the Gandhi Nagar police station where policemen allegedly showed laxity in dealing with the case.

The protests started in the morning with a small crowd at police headquarters demanding stringent action against policemen, but as the day progressed, it grew to a few hundreds.

The protesters tried to enter the PHQ at regular intervals by breaking the barricades but a heavy posse of security personnel stationed there prevented them.

Activists of BJP, CPI(M), CPI, AAP, AISF, AIYF, SFI, ABVP and other organisations were part of the protest. There were protests at AIIMS also.

In the afternoon, a group of protesters marched to Shinde's 2-Krishna Menon Marg residence demanding the sacking of Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar. They dispersed later after a memorandum in this regard was submitted to his office.

A group of people from Lok Raj Sangathan and Naya Daur Party also staged a protest outside Gandhi's residence demanding the sacking of Shinde.

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