The youngest offender of the horrific December 16 Delhi gangrape case walked free on Sunday as the Supreme Court refused the dramatic post-midnight move of the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) to stay his release by giving an urgent hearing. The convict, who was a juvenile at the time of the crime, has already been taken to an undisclosed place.
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– Nirbhaya’s mother sustained injured during police detention from Rajpath while protesting against release of juvenile convict.
Nirbhaya’s mother injured during police detention from Rajpath while protesting against release of juvenile convict. pic.twitter.com/foBMK7gZuy
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– Police swung into action, detains Nirbhaya’s parents and many other protesters.
Protesters alongwith Nirbhaya’s parents detained from Rajpath while protest against release of juvenile convict. pic.twitter.com/s3CCVRCyce
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– Nirbhaya’s parents shout slogans along with hundreds of youths demanding death penalty for ‘released’ youngest rape convict.
– Police barricaded the roads and are ordering people to clear the roads. Police announces that section 144 is imposed in area.
– More and more people join the protests at India Gate after marching from Jantar mantar
– Nirbhaya’s parents say that society and govt has let them down by releasing them youngest convict.
– Juvenile convict handed over to NGO in Delhi, Police sources
– Youngest convict in December 16 Delhi gang-rape case released from correction centre.
– After protesting at Jantar Mantar Nirbhaya’s parents along with hundreds of demonstrators march towards India gate to protest against Juvenile convict’s release.
– “Both the Centre and the Delhi government have failed us,” Nirbhaya’s mother Asha Devi told NDTV adding that “What’s the point of filing the plea so late that the hearing takes place after his release?.
– We have struggled for three years and got nothing but frustration. If the juvenile convict is released today, somebody filing SLP or trying to help us out won’t hold any significance for me: Nirbhaya’s mother
Swati Maliwal writes to Juvenile Justice Board requesting to nt release juvenile convict until matter is heard in SC pic.twitter.com/oeiWfRwjSf
— ANI (@ANI_news) December 20, 2015
– According CNN-IBN, juvenile’s release order form has been completed and it was done the day when he was shifted out of the remand home. The report quoting sources said that, signing of formal order is now mere a legal procedure. The juvenile, who has been shifted out of correctional facility, is now being kept at an undisclosed place. His criminal record has been expunged and the new identity will not be revealed.
– The parents of Nirbhaya (the name of the victim) have decided to lead a protest against juvenile’s release on Sunday near India Gate at 1pm. However, the Delhi police has denied them permission as Section 144 is imposed in the area.
– The parents of the medical student who was raped and tortured on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012 has said the women’s panel’s late night plea in the Supreme Court against the release of the youngest convict in the case is “sheer drama.”
– “What’s the point of the plea if the hearing will take place tomorrow and if he is to come out today? They (women’s panel) acted too late and only after we protested. It was a pretense to show they are with us,” the victim’s mother said.
– The juvenile offender is all set to walk free on Sunday as the Supreme Court refused the dramatic post-midnight move of the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) to stay his release by giving an urgent hearing.
– A vacation bench comprising Justices A K Goel and U U Lalit in their order pronounced at 2 AM, posted the matter for hearing on Monday. However, DCW chairperson Swati Maliwal and the lawyers of the women’s panel hoped that since the matter has become sub judice, the government and Delhi Police will not release the juvenile offender.
– The Special Leave Petition filed by DCW against the order of the Delhi High Court, which refused to restrain the release of the convict, was referred by the Chief Justice of India T S Thakur before the vacation bench.
– A day before his scheduled release, the juvenile convict was moved out of Delhi today even as distraught parents of the victim were detained after they held a protest against allowing him to walk free.
– The convict, who is now 20 years old and was known to be the most brutal of the attackers, has been taken to an undisclosed location from a correction home in North Delhi amid concerns that there was a threat to his life. Sources said the juvenile has been kept under observation of an NGO under the protection of Delhi Police.
– 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.
