After medical reports revealed water accumulation in her brain, doctors were compelled to carry out the surgery in the afternoon, to ensure she does not slip into a more serious phase.

As the child entered the 13th day of her stay in the hospital, doctors attending on her at the Intensive Care Unit of Jai Prakash Narayan AIIMS Trauma Centre said her condition remains the same and she had to be put back on ventilator in the early hours today.

Dr Deepak Aggarwal, a neurosurgeon attending on the girl said, "We did a surgery on her brain some time ago. Fluid had accumulated in her brain and it needed to be taken out. It would have been fatal for her if the surgery had not been prompt."

This is the second surgery the two-year-old child has undergone after she was brought to the hospital on January 18.

"The first surgery was conducted to remove a blood clot in the brain. It was conducted immediately after her admission here," he said.

The fluid sample collected from her brain would be tested to find out whether there was any infection, he said.

The child was brought to the hospital with severe head injury, both her arms broken, bite marks all over her body and her cheeks branded with hot iron.

She was brought to the hospital by a teenaged girl who claimed to be her mother and had cited a fall from the bed as the reason for the child's pathetic state.