Late on Saturday, Swati Maliwal, the head of Delhi Commission of Women, filed a petition to the Supreme Court trying to prevent the release. India’s top court is set to hear another such petition Monday.
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Scores of protesters, including the parents of the December 16 gang rape victim, were detained by the police after they staged a protest against the release of the juvenile convict near India Gate here on Sunday. “Case sub-judice now”, Maliwal tweeted. “If he has come out, what is the point of the hearing at the Supreme Court?” the mother of the victim told reporters.
Amidst a raging debate on whether the juvenile convict in Nirbhaya gangrape case should have been released, the Centre said it had opposed his release but the Delhi High Court has ordered him to be freed from the remand home.
The reproduction of the story/photograph in any form will be liable for legal action. The victim’s mother said that all that she demanded was justice.
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.
He also expressed his plan to meet President Pranab Mukherjee in this regard and reiterated that the juvenile must be released on the completion of his three year sentence.
The juvenile convict was moved out of Delhi yesterday even as distraught parents of the victim were detained today after they held a protest against allowing him to walk free.
According to reports, the convict, who is now 21, was shifted from Timarpur reforms home in Delhi to an undisclosed location over security concerns a few days ago. His criminal record has been expunged and the new identity will not be revealed, added sources.
He will be staying in Delhi under the care of an NGO. The appeals of the convicts against the hanging is pending in the Supreme Court.
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The juvenile convict was moved out of Delhi on Saturday, a day before his scheduled release. He was a juvenile in 2012 when he dedicated the heinous crime alongside together with his associates in a shifting bus within the capital.
