Delhi (CNN) A three-year-old girl is recovering in hospital after she was allegedly raped in Delhi on Sunday, exactly six years after the brutal gang rape of a student on a bus in the Indian capital ignited protests across the country.

A man has been arrested in connection with Sunday's attack, New Delhi police announced on Twitter.

Swati Maliwal, chairperson of the Delhi Commission for Women, had earlier alleged that the girl had been raped.

"Today a 3 year old girl has been brutally raped in Bindapur, Delhi. She is bleeding profusely & is v critical. Am on my way to meet her," Maliwal tweeted Sunday.

Today a 3 year old girl has been brutally raped in Bindapur, Delhi. She is bleeding profusely & is v critical. Am on my way to meet her.



How more can this city let down Nirbhaya that even on her 6th death anniversary children are raped! @narendramodi ji, for nth time, pl help! — Swati Maliwal (@SwatiJaiHind) December 16, 2018

Maliwal also tweeted that neighbors caught the 40-year-old alleged perpetrator and severely beat him.

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