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India rape: Father 'did not want victim named' India police suspended in suspected new rape case
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The father of an Indian woman who died after being gang raped on a Delhi bus has denied a British newspaper report that he wanted his daughter named. Four policemen have been suspended and a fifth transferred over the handling of a suspected new rape and murder case close to the Indian capital, Delhi.
The man was quoted by India's Hindustan Times as saying her identity should only be revealed if her name was attached to a new law. The father of the alleged 21-year-old victim has told the BBC she was gang raped. Her body was found on Saturday.
The 23-year-old victim died from injuries sustained on 16 December. Two men have been arrested and a third suspect is reported to have fled.
On Monday, five men are due to appear in a Delhi court charged with abduction, gang-rape and murder. Meanwhile, five men are due to appear in court charged with the abduction, gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old last month, a case that shocked India.
The case has sparked widespread anger across India and brought demands for greater protection for women. The victim in the latest case was a factory employee in Noida, a suburb of Delhi.
The victim, a student, has not been named as Indian law protects sex crime victims by prohibiting their identification. She disappeared on Friday night while returning home from work, Indian media reported.
However, Indian minister Shashi Tharoor has also urged authorities to reveal the name so it can be used for a new anti-rape law. The woman's father complained that police initially failed to react when he reported her disappearance, suggesting instead that she had gone off with someone.
The woman's father was quoted by a British newspaper on Sunday as saying her name should be made public to serve as an inspiration to other victims of sexual crimes. The case has triggered protests in Noida.
The Sunday People said the father had given it permission to name him and his daughter.
It carried a photograph of the father but said the family had requested no photograph of the victim be used.
But he was later quoted by the Hindustan Times and The Hindu newspapers as denying the comments attributed to him.
"I have only said we won't have any objection if the government uses my daughter's name for a new law for crime against women that is more stringent and better framed that the existing one," the Hindustan Times quoted him as saying.
Last week, the father told BBC Hindi that he had no problem with his daughter's name being used in the context of a revised anti-rape law. "She is a martyr. It would cause no problem to the family," he said.
Fast-track courtFast-track court
News of the case came as the trial of five suspects in a gang rape that has sparked widespread anger in India was due to get under way in Delhi.
Prosecutors have said they have extensive forensic evidence against the suspects, who could face the death penalty if found guilty.Prosecutors have said they have extensive forensic evidence against the suspects, who could face the death penalty if found guilty.
A sixth person accused in connection with the attack, a teenager, will be dealt with by a juvenile justice board. The five accused were named on Saturday as Ram Singh, his brother Mukesh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur.
At a pre-trial hearing on Saturday, a Delhi magistrate asked police to produce the five accused - named as Ram Singh, his brother Mukesh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur - at court on Monday.
Their trial is expected to take place in a newly formed fast-track court in the next few weeks.Their trial is expected to take place in a newly formed fast-track court in the next few weeks.
Meanwhile, protests have continued across India in the wake of the attack. A sixth person accused in connection with the attack, a teenager, will be dealt with by a juvenile justice board.
On 16 December the victim, a student, was raped for nearly an hour on a bus before she was dumped with a companion by the side of a road.
She later died of her injuries.
Protests have continued across India in the wake of the attack.
A demonstration in Delhi on Sunday included protesters who have been on hunger strike for more than a week.A demonstration in Delhi on Sunday included protesters who have been on hunger strike for more than a week.
Campaigners are calling for tougher rape laws and reforms to the police, who critics say often fail to file charges against accused attackers.Campaigners are calling for tougher rape laws and reforms to the police, who critics say often fail to file charges against accused attackers.
The woman had been to see a film with a male friend before they boarded the bus in Delhi last month. 'Martyr'
Both were beaten with an iron bar and the woman was raped for nearly an hour before they were dumped by the side of a road. Did the father of the Delhi gang-rape victim give permission to a British newspaper to reveal her name?
Her friend has since said that the attackers tried to run them over before driving off. The newspaper says yes. But the father has subsequently denied it.
Indian law strictly prohibits naming a rape victim as long as she is alive and states that "where the victim is dead", her name can be published only with "the authorisation in writing of the next-of-kin of the victim" to the government.
On Sunday, the victim's brother told the BBC that he was not aware that his family had sent any such authorisation letter to the authorities.
The high-profile case has generated worldwide interest and the Indian courts have so far insisted on not naming the victim - in court documents she has been called "XYZ".
Senior Supreme Court lawyer Priya Hingorani told the BBC that the family "is confused, they are grieving, and they sometimes may say something which is not thought through".
Ms Hingorani said the law, of course, cannot prosecute the parents for releasing the name of their daughter, but the police and courts can take action against the media for publicising her name.
Also on Sunday the victim's father denied a British newspaper report that he wanted his daughter named.
The Sunday People said the father had given it permission to name him and his daughter, despite an Indian law that protects sex crime victims by prohibiting their identification.
The newspaper carried a photograph of the father, but said the family had requested no photograph of the victim be used.
The father was later quoted by the Hindustan Times and The Hindu newspapers as denying the comments attributed to him.
"I have only said we won't have any objection if the government uses my daughter's name for a new law for crime against women that is more stringent and better framed that the existing one," the Hindustan Times quoted him as saying.
Last week, the father told BBC Hindi that he had no problem with his daughter's name being used in the context of a revised anti-rape law. "She is a martyr. It would cause no problem to the family," he said.
Indian minister Shashi Tharoor has also urged authorities to reveal the name so it can be used for a new anti-rape law.