India, July 23 -- New Delhi

Twenty-one-year-old Sakshi, who was injured during the Monday protest at Jantar Mantar and was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, has shown significant improvement in her condition, a medical bulletin issued by the hospital on Wednesday stated.

"She has been taken off the ventilator and is breathing on her own. She is conscious and responding to commands. Her MRI scans of the brain and spine is normal," the bulletin stated.

Abhay, a Delhi University student, who helped take Sakshi to the hospital, said the woman was injured in a "stampede-like" situation near the Registrar Cooperative office, where police had put up barricades, at around 11am. "We were not even on th...