New Delhi, Dec. 21 (ANI): Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh and Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar have been asked to present themselves before Parliament's Standing Committee on Home Affairs on December 27 in connection with the recent rape of a 23-year-old woman on a moving bus on the outskirts of the national capital.
According to media reports, the panel is also expected to undertake a reviw of the security situation in the country, and Delhi in particular, in the wake of the rape incident.
Chaired by BJP Rajya Sabha member M Venkaiah Naidu, the Standing Committee will also discuss plans for the setting up of fast-track courts to try perpetrators of such heinous crimes and for granting of exemplary punishment to them.
The Delhi Police has been sharply criticized on the issue of law and order in the national capital, especially on the issue of not ensuring the safety of women.
The government has already agreed to try the Delhi gang-rape case in the fast-track court, but there are demands from various quarters to deliver exemplary punishment to the culprits.
The summons to the home secretary and the police commissioner came even as the Delhi Police announced the recovery of a watch, two mobile phones, an ATM card and the burnt clothes of the victim.
Earlier in the day, police confirmed that they had detained a man from Badaun in Uttar Pradesh in connection with the gang-rape.
The man, detained in a late night raid on Thursday, has been identified as Raju. He will be produced before the four men arrested to confirm his identity, an official said.
Also on Friday, hundreds of women and students demanding strong action against the accused marched towards Raisina Hill in central Delhi.
The savage rape and torture occurred on December 16 night, when the woman and her male friend boarded a private bus in south Delhi after watching a movie.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was brutally assaulted by six men. Her male friend, who tried to save her, was also beaten up by the rapists.
Both victims were stripped and dumped by the roadside after some 40 minutes of ordeal near the domestic airport.
Meanwhile the privately run Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in central Delhi has offered to bear the cost of all subsequent treatment.
D.S. Rana, chairman of the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Board of Management, said that he has communicated this offer to Dr. B.D. Nathani, the Medical Superintendent of Safdarjung Hospital, where the raped woman is currently being treated.
Doctors treating the woman said Thursday their focus was on providing her the best treatment as her life was at grave risk. She underwent surgery to remove a gangrenous section of intestine, and there was risk of infection.
"Moved by the plight of the young intern at a private hospital in the city, who was training to be a physiotherapist, we have offered her free treatment. Sir Ganga Ram Hospital has performed India's first and only living donor intestinal transplant which has been reported in a peer reviewed journal this year," Rana said.
Dr. Samiran Nundy, the chairman of the Department of Surgical Gastroenterology and Organ Transplantation at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, said intestinal transplant is the only course of treatment that would offer the victim the chance of a functional intestines.
Doctors said an intestinal graft could be obtained either from a brain-dead donor or from a living related donor.
"Transplant can be life-saving in patients with intestinal failure and failure of parenteral nutrition. However, getting an organ from a deceased donor is hard in India. The living donor option also has a few advantages. Both these options could be available for the victim once her condition stabilises," said Dr. Naimish Mehta, transplant surgeon at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
Dr. Mehta added: "In a normal individual, the length of the small intestine is approximately 600 cm, of which 200 cm of intestine can be removed for transplantation without any adverse effect on the living donor. In contrast, whole of the intestine from the brain-dead donor can be used for intestinal transplantation." (ANI)
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