Railways is likely to name one of the new trains announced today by Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal after the Delhi gangrape victim. According to sources,the railway ministry could make a formal announcement soon that the Chhapra-Anand Vihar Express (weekly) will be named either 'Nirbhaya' or 'Beti' after the girl. 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.
