NEW DELHI : The crime situation in the capital plunged to a new low when late on Friday evening a two-and-a-half-year-old girl was abducted from near her residence and raped in west Delhi’s Nihal Vihar area. The girl was found by the locals in an unconscious state at a nearby park during the early hours of Saturday. CCTV footage from a nearby shop shows two men on a bike carrying a child who is suspected to be the victim. The girl has been admitted in a hospital. The incident took place around 11:40pm. The girl was playing near her house, close to the venue of a Ramlila after a power cut disrupted the show. “Around 11.30pm, there was a power cut and the area was completely dark for the next 10 minutes. By the time the organisers switched on a generator, the girl had got off her grandmother’s lap and gone to play with her friends,” said a family member. Half-an-hour later, the grandmother realised the child was not around and raised an alarm. “I looked around for her but couldn’t find her. I asked a few of her friends but no one had seen her. I informed my son and the entire family, including a few neighbours, started searching for her. Later others too joined the search,” said the girl’s grandmother. The family called up the police and a complaint was registered. It was around 2am that the victim’s uncle found her lying unconscious near a transformer in a park. “She was rushed to Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Mangolpuri where she is admitted. There were policemen present during the Ramlila but none of them came forward to help us. The girl was found by us,” said the uncle. In fact, the family has accused the police of being slow in reacting. The victim is the only child of her parents and lives in a joint family. Her father works at a factory as a labourer and earns a meagre Rs 6,000 per month. The police have registered a case of rape under Section 376 and POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act). They have acquired the CCTV footage from a nearby shop that shows two men on a bike carrying the girl between them. One of them is slightly bald. They are wearing shirt and trouser. They are seen passing a Santro car. A glimpse of the child, believed to be the victim, can be seen sitting between the two. “As of now, a case of rape and abduction has been registered against unknown persons. The girl is too small to give a statement but she has told us that two men took her from near her residence to the park. We are probing the matter on the basis of the clues that we have. The footage has been analysed and we are trying to trace the vehicle on the basis of a few digits of the registration number that can be seen,” said Dependra Pathak, joint commissioner of police (southwest).