Delhi govt announces Rs 15 lakh for gangrape victim’s family

The Delhi government today announced financial aid of Rs 15 lakh for the next of the kin of the 23-year-old gangrape victim and offered a job to a family member of the girl, who died two days ago.

The decisions were taken at a Cabinet meeting presided over by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.

The phsyiotherapy student was brutally gangraped and assaulted in a moving bus in south Delhi on December 16.

She breathed her last in a Singapore hospital on Saturday morning and her mortal remains were cremated here yesterday.

—————PTI