PM thanks Verma panel
31 Jan 2013 7:26 AM IST
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said that the government will be prompt in pursuing the recommendations of the J S Verma Committee to amend the law to deal effectively with cases of sexual assault against women.
In a letter to Justice Verma, former Chief Justice of India, Singh thanked him and other two members of the Committee – Justice (retd) Leila Seth and former Solicitor General Gopal Subramanian – for completing within a short period of 30 days the work of the panel, set up in the wake of the brutal gang rape and assault of a 23-year-old here on 16 December last.
‘That the Committee submitted its report within a short period of 30 days is testimony to your commitment and concern for the public good...On behalf of our government, I assure you that we will be prompt in pursuing the recommendations of the Committee,’ the Prime Minister said in the letter. Singh also thanked the Committee members for their ‘labour of love’ in pursuing their job.
In a letter to Justice Verma, former Chief Justice of India, Singh thanked him and other two members of the Committee – Justice (retd) Leila Seth and former Solicitor General Gopal Subramanian – for completing within a short period of 30 days the work of the panel, set up in the wake of the brutal gang rape and assault of a 23-year-old here on 16 December last.
‘That the Committee submitted its report within a short period of 30 days is testimony to your commitment and concern for the public good...On behalf of our government, I assure you that we will be prompt in pursuing the recommendations of the Committee,’ the Prime Minister said in the letter. Singh also thanked the Committee members for their ‘labour of love’ in pursuing their job.
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