Police said a 26-year-old unemployed man arrested yesterday was known to the girl, who was found unconscious with her face and body slashed on railway tracks near her house in a slum area last Friday.
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A rapist can move around freely once he is released but we are not even allowed to go to Jantar Mantar: Nirbhaya’s father Badrinath Singh.
The release became possible notwithstanding the Delhi Commission for Women’s late night effort to stall it failed after the Supreme Court post-midnight held a sitting and refused to stay it. In its order, the Supreme Court declined to stop the release of the juvenile offender and posted the matter before a vacation bench that will hear the matter tomorrow.
The parents and women’s rights groups have been opposing the release of the youngest attacker, mainly on the grounds that it was unclear if he had been rehabilitated and was ready to be reintegrated into society.
The case turned a global spotlight on the treatment of women in India, where police say a rape is reported every 20 minutes. He will finish the rest of his sentence in a reform home, according to authorities.
In New Delhi on Sunday, demonstrators took to the streets to protest the release of a juvenile convicted in the fatal 2012 gang rape of a young woman.
More than a hundred people gathered in New Delhi on Sunday to protest against the release.
The rape of a four-year-old girl in New Delhi has reignited fears for the safety of women and children in the country’s capital city amid an ongoing countrywide struggle to stem sexual violence.
The woman and a male friend were returning home from seeing a movie at an upscale mall when they were tricked by the attackers into getting on the bus, which the men had taken out for a joyride. A fifth man died in prison. A trial court had awarded death penalty to the other four rapists which was upheld by the high court.
The case also ignited a debate about whether minors who commit especially horrific crimes should be tried as adults.
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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.
