To name or not to name a rape victim
Anindita Mukherjee from Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad, was in the news a few months ago when she sought and got India’s “first gender-neutral certificate” with the honorific ‘Mx’ instead of ‘Mr’ or ‘Ms’. Last week, she wrote to us questioning the newspaper’s decision to not mention the name of the Delhi gang-rape victim even in the story where the girl’s mother wanted her daughter to be named. You should take her name too,” the mother said on ‘Nirbhaya Chetna Diwas’, an event organised by women’s and citizens’ groups at Jantar Mantar. According to her, an explanation for why the newspaper refrained from naming the victim, despite her name having been in the public domain ever since her father's interview with The Sunday People in 2013, would be one way to engage with Ms. Devi’s statement. Earlier this year, there was a PTI report which this newspaper carried on March 6, 2015, “Father objects to revealing gang rape victim’s name in India’s Daughter.”.
Minor gang-raped in Delhi, family alleges police asked to drop name of accused
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