Juvenile convict in Nirbhaya case to be monitored after release

The Women activist Abha Singh turned up citing that a juvenile can not be punished for more than three years adding that Article 20 even mentions that a person can not be convicted for the same offence twice and moreover if government feels that if this juvenile rapist is risky to society, he would be kept under monitoring.

“It doesn’t matter to us whether or not he’s put in an NGO or not. “What matters is that he is out of jail”, Nirbhaya’s mother told ANI. What we know is that the juvenile has been released, whether he is an NGO or somewhere else.

“We will all the time be dissatisfied over the truth that the individual concerned in the brutal killing of our daughter is roaming free”.

Ahead of the discharge of the juvenile convict, Union Minister Maneka Gandhi on December 01, 2015, stated that she has written to the Home Ministry demanding that these accused of sexual abuse and having served a sentence, ought to be tracked as soon as launched.

Reacting to reports of his impending release, the Union minister had said that while the juvenile’s release into society was not ideal, the letter of the law had been followed in his conviction and sentencing.

As the juvenile, convicted in the 2012 brutal gang-rape and murder of a physiotherapy student in Delhi, is all set to be released later this month, parents of victim have nearly given up on the hope on his release being stalled. The Delhi police on Thursday chose to put the rapist under the care of an NGO, which will provide him vocational training.

The convict from Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun was a juvenile when the court found him guilty of raping and assaulting the victim with iron rods along with five accomplices in a private moving bus in Delhi. Nirbhaya died 13 days after the incident, in a hospital in Singapore where she had been taken for treatment.