Second suspect held in India rape case Indian police on Monday arrested a second migrant worker suspected of last week's brutal rape of a five-year-old girl, a case that has triggered a renewed outcry over sexual violence against women and girls in the Indian capital. The little girl, the daughter of poor migrant construction workers, was abducted, raped and abused for two days, then abandoned in a locked room in the same tenement building where her parents lived, where neighbours eventually found her after hearing her cries. The child, who had been left for dead by her attackers, was in a critical condition when she was found last Wednesday, with such severe internal injuries that she required emergency surgery. Doctors say she is now improving and in a stable condition. Pradeep Kumar, a 19-year-old migrant labourer who had lived in New Delhi for four years, was arrested in his native village in the eastern state of Bihar, around 1,000km from the city, and flown back to the Indian capital on Monday. New Delhi's police commissioner Neeraj Kumar, who is not related, described Mr Kumar as "illiterate" and said he had confessed to the crime. On Saturday, New Delhi police had already arrested Manoj Kumar, a 24-year-old labourer who had rented the room where the attack took place. He too was arrested in his native village, also in the state of Bihar, and identified his younger friend as his accomplice in the attack. The two men, who are not related - Kumar is a common surname in India - have been charged with abduction, rape and attempted murder of the little girl, whose family reported her missing shortly after she disappeared while playing outside. The case comes just four months after the fatal December gang rape of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student on a bus in New Delhi triggered a wave of massive protests at the pervasive sexual harassment of women in public spaces in the Indian capital. The outcry prompted India's Congress party-led governing coalition to adopt tough new laws that would allow for the death penalty for some rapists in the most grievous cases. But following the attack on the little girl, Manmohan Singh, India's prime minister, has called on Indians to "introspect" on the causes and solutions for the widespread violence against women. "The gruesome assault on the little girl a few days back reminds us once again of the need to work collectively to root out this sort of depravity from our society," Mr Singh said at a meeting on Sunday with civil servants. Over the last three days, New Delhi has seen sporadic protests against the rape of the little girl, and the police handling of the case; authorities have shut down three metro stations in the heart of the city to prevent large crowds from gathering as they did last December. The child's family accused police of rebuffing them when they went to report their daughter missing, and then offering them Rs2,000 ($37) as hush money to cover up the matter once she was discovered. Police were also caught on video slapping a young women protesting about the case, further fuelling public outrage against the law enforcement machinery. Some opposition politicians, activists and protesters have called for the resignation of New Delhi's police commissioner.