Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said that the government will be prompt in pursuing the recommendations of 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 gangrape and assault of a 23-year-old here on December 16 last.

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