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December 16 gang-rape case: juvenile convict will not be tried in regular court

All India | Edited by Amit Chaturvedi | Updated: March 28, 2014 14:49 IST



Massive protests were organised across the nation after the brutal assault on a physiotherapy student in Delhi on December 16, 2012

New Delhi: A convict who was 17 when he participated in the heinous and fatal gang-rape of a young woman on a Delhi bus cannot be tried by a regular court, said Supreme Court judges today, rejecting the request of the victim's parents.

Six men were found guilty of the gang-rape that shocked India and ignited huge street protests and a national debate on the lack of safety for women.

The teen was tried by a special juvenile court last year and given the maximum sentence of three years in a reform home. The parents of the woman who died said that punishment was not severe enough, and asked for him to be tried by a regular court, where the death sentence could apply if he were to be found guilty.

In December 2012, a 23-year-old physiotherapy intern boarded a bus with her male companion. Six men then assaulted him and took turns raping her before flinging the barely conscious couple onto a road. Her injuries were so severe that she died nearly a fortnight later in a Singapore hospital.

The public fury over her death impelled the introduction of new laws to punish sexual crimes against women.

Six men were arrested for the gang-rape, including the minor. Of the others, Ram Singh, the alleged ring-leader, was found dead in his prison cell in March last year during his trial by a special fast-track court in Delhi. The other four adult convicts have been sentenced to death.

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy had asked the Supreme Court to consider redefining the legal definition of a juvenile. He said that when deciding the culpability of a juvenile, the "mental and intellectual maturity" of the accused should be taken into account, rather than the age limit of 18.

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Journalist 'gang-raped' in UP by 2 persons, 1 held

Pawan Dixit, Hindustan Times Varanasi, March 28, 2014
First Published: 18:35 IST(28/3/2014) | Last Updated: 20:37 IST(28/3/2014)

A 27-year-old journalist on assignment was allegedly gang-raped by two persons in Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday night.

The woman, who is associated with a Hindi newspaper of Haridwar in neighbouring Uttarakhand and is a resident of the state, lodged a complaint with the police on Friday.

At a time when the nation is reeling under sex crimes, the Mirzapur shocker surfaced exactly a week after four persons were sentenced to life imprisonment for raping a telephone operator at Shakti Mills compound in Mumbai last year.

Acting on the journalist's complaint, the police arrested one of the accused, who was identified as Ashwani Tewari, later in the day.

The alleged crime took place in Vindhyachal, a place of Hindu pilgrimage. The woman, along with her sister, had arrived in the town last Monday to write a story on the historic temples of the region. They were staying at a local hotel.

The woman told the police that she had gone to Ashtabhuja temple, situated on a hill top, on Thursday afternoon. According to her, she came down around 8pm and headed for the Mirzapur-Allahabad highway to hire an auto.

She alleged three persons in a white Scorpio abducted her and took her to an isolated place. The woman added while two of them raped her, the other person refused to be a part of the crime after learning she was a journalist.

They allegedly dumped the woman in a forest area in the wee hours of Friday. The woman said she reached a nearby railway crossing and informed the gateman about the incident. Later, the woman underwent medical tests at a local hospital.

"One person has been arrested and the vehicle used for abducting the victim has been recovered," said RK Srivastava, deputy inspector general of police (Vindhyachal range). "Three teams have been constituted to arrest the remaining accused.”





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