NEW DELHI: In another incident of a brutal sexual assault on a child, a six-year-old girl was left battling for her life after being allegedly targeted by a 24-year-old man in a village near Dwarka on Tuesday. The accused, Mohammad Nanhe, had taken the girl with him to an isolated spot outside the village and raped her.Police said the accused has been sent to judicial custody and it is being probed whether he is a repeat offender. He belongs to Bulandshahr and had come to Delhi about two months ago. He lives in the village and works as a daily wage labourer. A case under Section 376 of IPC (rape) and Section 6 of POCSO has been registered at Dwarka Sector 23 police station.The incident happened on Tuesday afternoon when the child was alone in her house. Her father is a daily wage labourer while her mother works as a domestic help in nearby houses. The girl’s elder brother said they were playing outside their house when the accused came and stood there for a few minutes. After a while, he started playing with the kids. The child’s parents were away at work.“He offered to buy mango drinks for me and my sister and took her along. When I tried to accompany them, he stopped me and asked me to wait at the spot. He said he would bring my sister back in a while,” the boy said. However, instead of taking the girl to a shop, the man took her to a road outside the village and then to an empty plot covered with thick vegetation. There, the man sexually assaulted the child and left her bleeding after half-an-hour.The child managed to come out of the plot in a severely injured condition. A local resident, Ravi Lal , was returning to the village on his scooty from Dwarka when he spotted the girl crying on the road. “She grabbed my shirt and requested me to drop her to the village. She was bleeding and was losing consciousness. I took the girl to a nearby shop and called up the PCR ,” Lal said.After police arrived, the girl was shifted to a nearby hospital where medical examination confirmed sexual assault. The girl was in shock and couldn’t give the police much information except for her own name.A team of about 20 policemen was formed to solve the case. The cops scanned CCTV footage from the spot where the girl was found and then went around the village looking for clues. In one footage, they spotted the girl walking with the accused. He was wearing an orange shirt and taking the girl outside the village. The same camera showed the man returning to the village around half-an-hour-later without the girl.Four hours later, the accused was found in the village wearing the same shirt. He was in an inebriated condition.Meanwhile, the girl’s parents had been contacted and she was sent to Safdarjung Hospital where she has undergone multiple surgeries and remains critical. The accused has allegedly confessed to having raped the child and took the police to the scene of crime. A team of forensic experts found bloodstains in the area.Delhi Commission For Women chief Swati Maliwal later met the family of the child at the hospital and promised legal and financial support to the parents.