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Gangrape: Body lay waiting at Singapore airport as govt, family differed on where to fly

New Delhi, Dec 31: The mortal remains of Delhi's 23-year-old gangrape victim could have arrived 3 hours earlier, but the Centre wanted the body to be flown either to Kolkata or Varanasi, instead of Delhi,

India TV News Desk Published : Dec 31, 2012 13:31 IST, Updated : Dec 31, 2012 16:56 IST
A bouquet of roses are left in front of the empty coffin for the body of a young Indian woman who was gang-raped in Delhi, on Saturday Dec. 29, 2012 in Singapore. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
In foggy weather, the plane landed, the Prime Minister and Congress president Sonia Gandhi were present at the airport, and the body was rushed to the victim's residence, where after religious rites were carried out, it was cremated in Dwarka, even before the veil of fog had lifted over Delhi, a time when most of the Delhiites were deep in slumber.









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