New Delhi: The brother of the 23-year-old gangrape victim, who succumbed to injuries in December last year, has been promised a seat in Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi (IGRUA) in Rae Bareli. The offer came after the government expressed its inability to fulfil his first demand for admission to National Defence Academy (NDA), Pune, on the ground that admission rules for the country's premier defence training institute do not allow for a student to be taken in on compassionate grounds.
"I had asked for admission to NDA, but was told that the NDA admission procedure is sacrosanct and there is no room for any adjustments. He asked me what my second choice is and I said I want to be a pilot, at which the official said a seat in IGRUA is possible but I would have to sit for an examination," said the 18-year-old who skipped his Class XII Board examinations because of the turmoil the family has been through in the past three months. The youth is also preparing for his engineering entrance examinations.
12/03/13 Abantika Ghosh/Indian Express
