The 25-year-old youth allegedly involved in the rape of the five-year-old girl in the national capital has been given transit remand to Delhi police till April 23 by a Chief Judicial Magistrate court of Muzaffarpur.

He was arrested from his in-laws' village Chiknota in Muzaffarpur district early this morning by a team from Delhi with the help of local police.

Police sources said, the accused was traced after tracking his mobile phone location. He is now being brought to Delhi via Patna.

Doctors attending to the victim at the AIIMS said the girl's condition was stable. She, said to be undernourished and weighs 20 kg, was shifted to AIIMS from Swami Dayanand Hospital for treatment.

She underwent a surgery at the Swami Dayanand hospital for removing foreign objects from her body.