Decision to send victim to abroad not political: HM
December 29, 2012  11:32
The government today maintained that the decision of airlifting the Delhi gang-rape victim to Singapore was in the interest of the patient and not a political decision. 

Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said the government decided to send her abroad following the advice of doctors in Safdarjung Hospital, where she was treated before being flown out to Singapore, AIIMS and Dr Naresh Trehan, chief of privately-run Medanta Medicity.

"It was not at all a political decision. It was in the interest of the patient we had taken the decision," he said when asked whether political compulsion forced the government to send the 23-year girl to Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore where she passed away this morning.
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