Railways to name train after Delhi gangrape victim

The train will pass through Ballia,which is the hometown of the girl,they said.

The 23-year-old paramedical student was raped and brutally assaulted by six persons in a moving bus here on December 16 last year. She was admitted to a Singapore hospital where she succumbed on December 29.

Bansal,while replying to railway debate in Parliament today,announced introduction of 19 more trains,including the Chhapra-Anand Vihar Express.

Sources said railways had received representations from the local leaders in Ballia for a train connecting the national capital to their town and naming it after the girl.