A day after the Delhi Police filed a chargesheet against five adult accused, questions are being asked about the fate of the sixth accused, a juvenile, who may escape tough punishment – as per juvenile laws he can be kept in a reform facility for not more than three years.
However, the teen – 17 years and six months old as per school records – is said to be the most brutal in the gang of the six men who raped the 23-year-old girl on December 16. He, along with driver Ram Singh, had engaged in most barbarism, reports said.
Giving the circumstances, a demand has been raised to make suitable amendments in the Juvenile Justice Act, so as to ensure that teens involved in heinous crimes like rape and murder are subjected to tough laws under the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
In the Delhi gang-rape case, the juvenile will be tried in Juvenile Justice Board. However, the police are awaiting the bone test results to confirm that he is a minor.
The victim’s father said that the juvenile should not be let off lightly because of his age. “The juvenile should be punished first…he was the one who lured my daughter into the bus and tortured her most mercilessly. He should be hanged like the other five accused,” he was quoted as saying.
Women and Child Development (WCD) Minister Krishna Tirath also echoed similar sentiments. She said the juvenile should be treated as an exception and not let off lightly considering the seriousness of the crime.
“From what I have learnt, one of the culprits in the case is not 18 years and falls short by a few months. Keeping in mind the gruesome nature of the crime, I feel he should not be let off lightly considering he played a prominent role in the violent act,” she said.
However, it may not be easy for the government to amend the law. Experts feel that a revision of the law may help in punishing the future offenders, but it will not help in the Delhi gang-rape case as such laws cannot be implemented retrospectively.
Also, India is a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child, which it ratified in 1992.
Yesterday, the Delhi Police filed a 33-page chargesheet with annexures running into several hundred pages was filed before Metropolitan Magistrate Surya Malik Grover with the prosecution urging the court to keep the document in a sealed cover to protect the identity of the victim and that the proceedings be held in-camera.
The Delhi Police filed the chargesheet in paper format and have requested the court to keep it sealed till it files the chargesheet in e-format on January 05.
The victim, who was gang-raped on December 16 in a moving bus in South Delhi, had died in a Singapore hospital on December 29.
The prosecution alleged that the crime was executed in a “well-planned” manner The court has posted the matter for hearing on January 05 before the area magistrate.
The trial in the case will be held on a day-to-day basis and public won’t be allowed inside the court premises during the trial.
If most young can rape equilly like other adults and as it is said he was the most merciless accused, in future many females are going to be raped and murdered. He has the criminal mind he should not consider as minor. if a puppy is mad, it has to be killed like any other mad dogs.
He is now 6 months of becoming a adult …so hanged him them ..This killer is not safe to be let out again …..no women would ever be safe around him … don't
let any women go through this again for him to punish him ….He will do it again!!
Dear Meetha, you are 100 per cent right about the Juvenile Muslim rapist-murderer. If he had raped his mother and pulled out her uterus, the Muslim society would have found him guilty and hanged him or stoned him to death immediately!!?
the minor should be hanged as well, he cannot get a lighter sentence because of his age!!! he along with the 5 accused all, will have to be hanged! we dont need such barbarians in this world!
The minor should be let off he behaved like aadult so why court treats him as an minor because of age see the degree of crime he done,please hang him like others other wise there is chances of under age children will take advantage of this law.
sorry correction to the previous post , The minor should not be let off he behaved like aadult so why court treats him as an minor because of age see the degree of crime he done,please hang him like others other wise there is chances of under age children will take advantage of this law.
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All of them should be hanged ,forget about minor Never happened in the Indian history how this young girl was brutally killed my heart shivers n anger is speechless …..
There is no question of treating the 6th guy as an exception owing to his age. The degree of crime he has committed is profound. To let him go alive is to open doors to similar possibilities in the future. India cannot bring shame to its people by saving any one of them.
hang the minor by amending laws…judges & lawmakers should feel the pain as a father of the victim..otherwise day will not be far when the daughter of these judges and lawmakers will find themselves brutally raped…no leniency..this shud be an exception and a strong message should be sent.
this case should be an exception against application of restrospective laws else another kid should be armed and trained to kill this minor when he is free……lets see whaat judges does then??
No such man who commits a crime as Brutal as this should be left unpunished regardless of the age…. in fact Hanging alone is not enough coz they will suffer little or no pain… instead they should be subjected to Brutal torture before they are finally killed so that an example is set before others BEASTS who live in our society….
The Brave Heart Girl's friend told in an interview to Zee News TV today that, in her statement to Megistrate the Brave Heart Girl said that, "she didn't want 6 of them to be hanged instead she wanted them to be BURNT ALIVE…."
and i so wish that our Govt. could fulfil her last wish…
it is disgusting and shameful to accept that juvenile,who extracted intestine from rape victim with bare hand was muslim named Md.Afroz.He was the most brutal.
This is hoax circulating on the Net. Juveniles' actual name is Pradeep Kumar Alias Raju and he is from UP.
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Juvenile law can only be implimented if action of culprit could prove this very status in the process of crime commision instead any plea saving him from hard punishment that could be passed against him. This fact is invisible in this case. hence he is as guilty as other acused. The biological immaturity is no excuse.The facts of the case make no distinctions between the involved culprits. hence all should be convited equally.
Best may to punish. Physical or medical castration then be let off
Just tell his name and address.We will take care of the rest
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