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Clamour for honouring rape victim
Family ok if
anti-rape law named after her, Dikshit leads peace rally
Thursday January 03, 2013 08:57:10 AM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Three days
after she was cremated quietly, the Delhi gang-rape victim's
family Wednesday said they had no objection if her name was
revealed and a revised anti-rape law named after her.
At Jantar Mantar, in the heart of the Indian capital, protestors
continued clamouring for stringent punishment for rapists and
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit marched to Rajghat at the head of "a
peace rally" in memory of the brutally gang-raped and tortured
woman who died Dec 29.
Police arrested Dinesh Yadav, owner the bus in which the ghastly
crime was committed, even as the Delhi High Court set up a fast
track court to hear the case on a daily basis and the Saket Court
Bar Association said that no lawyer would defend the woman's
attackers.
The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) raised the pitch for
honouring the victim, with its Delhi unit chief Vijender Gupta
asking Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to posthumously award her the
"Ashoka Chakra award for bravery".
Giving a new twist to the debate over legal ban on disclosing the
identity of a gang-rape or rape victim, Minister of State for
Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor tweeted Tuesday that the
Delhi woman should be named and honoured. A day later, the call
found support from the victim's family and others.
"We have no objection to revealing her name," the 23-year-old
victim's brother told IANS over telephone from Ballia in Uttar
Pradesh. The family has temporarily shifted to its village from
Delhi in the wake of traumatic developments since her Dec 16
gang-rape.
"We also have no objection if the (revised anti-rape) law is named
after her," he said.
"It will be an honour for my sister," the 20-year-old brother of
the victim said, four days after the physiotherapy intern died in
a Singapore hospital Dec 29.
The victim's father told a television channel that if the law was
named after her, it will be good. "It will honour her courage."
Tharoor had suggested that the revised anti-rape law be named
after her, and added that this should be done if her parents had
no objection.
The Congress snubbed him.
"It is his personal opinion. I suggest that since he is a part of
the government, he should have given the suggestion to the
government rather than making any such statement in public. The
party forum is also open for giving suggestions," Congress party
spokesperson Rashid Alvi told reporters.
Tharoor's proposal sparked a vigorous debate. While social
activist Kiran Bedi supported Tharoor, Congress leader Manish
Tewari asked people to wait till the committees formed to look
into the anti-rape laws gave their recommendations.
Bahujan Samaj Party leader Mayawati joined in. "If the family
agrees (to name the law after the victim), it can be done. But any
decision should not be taken by the central government
unilaterally. It should call an all-party meeting and take views
from all parties," she said.
Minister for Women and Child Development Krishna Tirath said
naming laws was not the main concern at the moment.
"The government will think on that, but the priority at this
moment is to ensure such incident is not repeated," Tirath told
news channel NDTV.
The victim's brother said they were conducting the last rites of
the young woman who was cremated Dec 30 in Delhi, exactly two
weeks after she was brutally raped and tortured.
He told IANS that his sister's ashes were immersed in the Ganga in
Bihar Buxar around 11.30 p.m. Tuesday.
The trainee physiotherapist was raped in a moving bus. She was
robbed, stripped, tortured and then thrown out on the roadside
along with her friend on a cold Dec 16 night. She was taken to
Singapore for treatment.
The on-going protests here have subsided a great deal, but a
group, formed randomly at the Jantar Mantar, has started a mission
to collect written messages from people protesting against the
brutal gang-rape.
The messages will be sent to the Justice J.S. Verma Committee
formed by the government to look into amendments for enhanced
punishment in sexual offences against women.
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