“I am satisfied that the bill has been passed in the upper house but somewhere deep down I feel sad that my own daughter never got justice”, said Asha Singh, the victim’s mother, as her eyes welled up.
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The juvenile bill, passed through voice note has been sent to the President and awaits consent.
The Rajya Sabha took up for discussion the juvenile justice amendment bill, a day after members cutting across party lines agreed that the important legislation should be taken up immediately.
Highlights * The Bill replaces the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000.
Responding to the opposition parties, who are criticizing her, Maneka Gandhi said that, the bill was not her personal or NDA governments, but it is applicable to everybody, related to the case. Amid protests, the juvenile convict in the case was sent to an NGO in Delhi on Sunday.
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said if the Juvenile Justice Act is not more stringent, people like terror convict Ajmal Kasab or underworld don Dawood Ibrahim would walk free, given that they committed major crimes as minors.
The bill provides for the trial of those between 16 and 18 years of age as adults for heinous offences.
Gandhi said the juveniles will still have the power to appeal even if a court decides that they will go to an adult jail. Any crime for which the punishment is more than seven years is heinous.
Minors who are convicted as adults would stay in a reform home until they turn 21 then complete their sentences in a regular prison. CPI(M) MP Sitaram Yechury repeatedly said that emotions should not drive a law.
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But the youngest of her attackers, who was 17 at the time of the crime, was sentenced to three years and released recently. Send me to juvenile justice (board)’. According to NCRB data in 2013, there were 28,000 juvenile offenders in India, out of which 3,887 were accused of serious crimes.
