India flies rape victim to Singapore for treatment India has flown a critically injured 23-year-old rape victim to a hospital in Singapore to boost her chances of survival and reduce public focus on her battle for life. The Indian cabinet approved the highly unusual government decision to airlift and pay the medical costs for a citizen who was the victim of a crime. Public anger over the brutal attack in New Delhi - and the pervasive insecurity of women in the Indian capital - continues to rage while the young woman's medical condition is deteriorating. The young physiotherapist was gang-raped and brutalised with an iron rod on December 16 on board a moving bus. The young woman suffered grievous injuries and has undergone several emergency surgeries. The brutality of the attack has triggered furious protests in New Delhi, where women complain they confront sexual harassment in public spaces on an almost daily basis. A large swath of the city was sealed off for two days this week, after a weekend of violent clashes between thousands of protesters and police using water canons, tear gas, and huge sticks to try to disperse the crowds. On Wednesday, India's government, which has been trying to defuse public anger over the case, appointed a retired woman judge to investigate the rape. She has been tasked with determining whether police lapses led to the attack, and also to suggest improvements to enhance women's safety. The steps are being taken with the serious intent to find a lasting solution to the problem that plagues all metros and other towns of India. That it is happening in Delhi is a matter of shame," P Chidambaram, the finance minister, said in a televised briefing. Authorities organised emergency passports for the young rape victim and her parents. They were flown, along with two doctors, in an air ambulance to Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital where they arrived on Thursday morning. The Indian government said it would bear all the expenses of the medical treatment. The victim, whose name has not been made public but whose family has been speaking to Indian journalists, comes from a lower middle class family. Upon her arrival at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, the woman was put in the intensive care unit, where she is in an "extremely critical condition," according to hospital officials. The emergency airlift is unlikely to assuage the anger of New Delhi's young women, who are planning fresh protests today. Women say verbal harassment, groping and more aggressive assaults are common on the streets of the city - and rarely reported or punished. Over the past decade, India's capital has also recorded ten high-profile gang-rapes in which women have been abducted and repeatedly raped in moving vehicles, including four such incidents since August. India has a low conviction rate for rapists. In 2011, the country recorded 24,000 rape cases, but just 26 per cent of the accused were convicted. Many rape cases are never reported, as police actively discourage women from filing complaints.