On Saturday night in a last-ditch attempt to stall his release, Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal filed a special leave petition (SLP) with the Supreme Court, challenging the High Court order that refused to restrain the convict’s release.
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The youngest offender of the horrific December 16 Nirbhaya gangrape case was released from a correction home and moved to an NGO-run shelter on Sunday, 20 December.
The man was short of his 18th birthday when he and five others brutally attacked the 23-year-old woman in a case that shocked India, where sexual violence against women is rampant. The parents, who headed a demonstration at India Gate late evening were detained by the police and taken to the Parliament Street police station along with dozens of supports.
Although he participated in the heinous act, he was tried as a juvenile and was given a three-year prison sentence because he was 17 years old when the rape occurred.
India’s supreme court is set to hear another petition on Monday.
The convict, who was a juvenile at the time of the crime, has been handed over to an NGO in Delhi, said police sources.
The protest started around 5 PM and within half-an-hour, a large number of protesters comprising mostly students and activists gathered at a stretch on Rajpath, blocking the road.
The Delhi Commission for Women said in its petition to the Supreme Court that during his stay in the correctional home, the convict showed lack of remorse and had been further radicalised.
The woman, Jyoti Singh, 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 joy ride.
The injuries she sustained from being penetrated with a metal rod were so severe that her intestines had to be removed once she was taken to the hospital.
In March of 2014 four of the defendants who were adults at the time wand were found guilty of murder, rape, unnatural offenses, and destruction of evidence in 2013 were given the death sentence.
The four adults who went to trial confessed to the attack but later retracted their confessions, saying they’d been tortured into admitting their involvement.
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India’s watershed gang rape case triggered protests across India and sparked a global outcry advocating greater protection of women’s rights. Because he was a minor when he committed the crime, his identity has been withheld from the courts, the BBC reported.
