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Naming anti-rape law after girl will be an honour: Family

Ballia/New Delhi, Jan 2: The family of the Delhi gang-rape victim today said it had no objection to naming the proposed new anti-rape law after the girl, a day after Union Minister Shashi Tharoor mooted



“If the government names the revised anti-rape law after her, they have no objection and it would be an honour to her”.  the father and brother of the girl told PTI at their ancestral village in Ballia in Uttar Pradesh.



“If her name is made public for this purpose, they have no objection to it,” the girl's family said.  Mayawati when asked to comment on Tharoor's suggestion said, “If the family of the victim has given its approval to the law being named after the rape victim I have no objections to it.”

“The Central government should convene an all party meeting and take a decision in consensus with everyone”, she told reporters in Lucknow.

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