Nirbhaya Gang-rape: Sympathise with Victim’s Parents, But Law has to Prevail

Apprising the Principal Magistrate of the JJB, Murari Singh, Maliwal wrote that the DCW has moved a Special Leave Petition in the Supreme Court on late Saturday night, challenging the release of the juvenile convict, the Hindu newspaper reported.

Meanwhile National Commission of Women in its last ditch attempt to hold the release of the convict has filed a plea in the Supreme Court.

The Delhi High Court rejected a petition to extend the man’s term on Friday, the AP reports, although it will hear a similar petition Monday.

– The parents of the gangrape victim, along with 40 Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU) students, were detained by the police as they staged a protest against the release of the juvenile convict.

“The matter has been listed in Supreme Court for tomorrow and is thus sub-judice…”

Triggering fresh debates, the juvenile, who was an offender in the 2012 Delhi gangrape case, was released from a special home on Sunday. They might have been able to stop the release if they had tried during the day”, said Nirbhaya ” s mother.

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India responded to the public outcry over the rape by fast-tracking tougher laws against sex crimes, and members of the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi have pushed to change the juvenile law and reduce the age of attaining adulthood to 16, from 18.

Speaking at the India Gate protest on Sunday evening, the victim’s father said the release was “really upsetting”.

The criminal record of the juvenile has been expunged as per legal provisions and his identity shall not be disclosed, sources said.

The attackers beat the victim’s friend and took turns raping her. They penetrated her with a rod, leaving severe internal injuries that led to her death two weeks later.

The juvenile is one of the convicts who brutally assaulted and raped a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in south Delhi on December 16, 2012.

News reports said the man was moved Sunday from the reform home where he had been kept to a new home under the care of a children’s rights group.

On Saturday, the parents and scores of students holding placards and banners demonstrated outside the juvenile detention centre in Delhi where the offender was held.