Upon release, he will spend one year under an NGO.
By Sreekanth A Nair
The juvenile convict in the Delhi gang rape case will not be set free after he completes his three-year term at a prohibition centre this month.
The 17-year-old convict will be sent to an NGO, where he will spend one year. He will undergo vocational training there and will be monitored by the authorities during the period.
He was the youngest in the group who brutally raped a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in Delhi in 2012. The girl later died in Singapore. Four others, who were found guilty, are on death row and another one died in jail.
The Hindustan Times reported that the juvenile convict was radicalized by a fellow in the prohibition centre.
Union Cabinet Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi had said that sending the juvenile convict directly to society was not ideal and he should be kept under close watch.
“You know the issue is not of that particular individual, the point is that I have written to the home ministry saying that there should a tweaking of the law in which every person accused of sexual abuse, who has served a time and has come out should have to report to the police station and he should be monitored,” she said.
Earlier, authorities had considered applying the National Security Act to stop the juvenile convict from leaving Delhi or going to his native place Srinagar as it may create tension in society.
The victim’s parents had approached the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to stop the convict’s release. They said that he was the cruelest among the convicts and was a threat to society. They also demanded that his face should be shown to society.
The convict was 17 years old when he was arrested and escaped death row.
The mild punishment given to the juvenile had led to a nationwide debate on lowering the age limit for punishment for crimes like rape and murder.
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They should put an tracking collar on him so that his whereabouts can be monitored.