27 Jan 2012, 1607 hrs IST

India News: New Delhi, The plight of an abandoned two-year-old baby moved Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit to offer help. Chief Minister Dikshit said the government would extend all possible help to the girl.

Meanwhile the baby continued to be in a critical condition at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), where she is being treated for human bites and other injuries.

"Children recover a bit faster than elders, we are hopeful, but the child is still in a critical condition," AIIMS doctor Sumit Sinha told reporters here.

"The Delhi government will support whatever her (the infant's) needs are, we will fulfil her needs. We are waiting for the medical report, let it come," Dikshit told reporters here.

Two-year-old Falak was brought to the hospital last week with multiple injuries, including a fractured skull and a clot on the right side of her brain. The baby also had human bite marks all over her body.

A doctor from AIIMS said the baby was taken off the ventilator Friday morning. The girl is, however, critical and her chances of survival are slim.

"The baby is still unconscious, but she is moving her limbs now," a doctor treating Falak told IANS.

"Her chances of survival are 50-50, and if she survives, a question mark will remain on her mental health," the doctor said.

Delhi police are meanwhile trying trying to find her parents. Sources from Delhi police told IANS that special teams have been sent to different states to trace the parents.

Falak was brought to AIIMS in an unconscious state by a teenager, Mahi Gupta, who claimed to be her mother.

Sumit Sinha, an associate professor of neurosurgery and one of the doctors treating Falak, had said Thursday that from the baby's injuries it seemed as if her head was smashed against a wall.

The teenager, Mahi, has meanwhile been sent to a juvenile home.

While admitting the baby, Mahi had said she lived along with her 'husband' Rajkumar Gupta in a paying guest accommodation in Mahipalpur area of south Delhi, said Nirmal Thakur, spokesperson of the AIIMS Trauma Centre.

Deputy Commissioner of Police Chhaya Sharma said the teenaged girl was stopped in the hospital Jan 18 after her story seemed suspicious.

A case of kidnapping, abandoning a child below the age of 12 years and causing hurt has been registered against unknown people, Sharma told IANS.

According to Sharma, Mahi had gone missing from her home in Sangam Vihar area of south Delhi last year and her parents had lodged a complaint.

A police officer said the girl had eloped with someone.

The baby was with the girl for the past 20 days, but police are still investigating how she got there.

The girl told police that the child was bruised when she tried to prevent her from running around. The child also slipped in the bathroom later, she said.