Union Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Sunil Dutt on Thursday will meet family members of Major Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, who won a silver medal at the double trap shooting event at the Athens Olympics.

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The time of the trip is not yet fixed, but it could be sometime in the evening.

"The sports minister's office called us a little while back and told us that he would like to pay a visit to our house in Delhi Cantonment. He was expected to visit in the morning, now it is likely to take place in the evening," Dr Gayatri Rathore, his wife, told rediff.com

Dutt is expected to announce a reward for Rathore during his visit.

Rathore will return home late Saturday night.