Delhi rape juvenile may be kept with NGO

New Delhi: Even as the Delhi police contemplated charging the youngest of the six men who gang-raped and tortured a student on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012 under the NSA, sources on Thursday said that he will be released from the special home on December 22 but will be in the custody of an NGO for at least a year.

“Though no final decision has been taken yet, it is being considered seriously to make him work with an NGO where he would be mostly kept indoors and might be allowed supervised visits home,” said the sources. “That way he would be within sight of the government officials,” the sources added.

To stop the convict’s release, the gang rape victim’s parents had petitioned the home ministry, courts and the National Human Rights Commission urging them to ensure that the juvenile remains inside prison even after the completion of his term.

“Our daughter will not get justice unless and until the four convicts are hanged and the juvenile convict is put behind bars,” victim’s mother said. The parents had claimed that his punishment was not enough considering the enormity of the crime as he was the most brutal of the other five accused.

Meanwhile, in an effort to curb sexual offences, WCD minister Maneka Gandhi has pitched for surveillance of sex crime convicts after release. The minister has asked the law minister for enactment of a law for mandatory registration of such offenders, ahead of the release of the December 16 gangrape juvenile convict later this month.

In a letter to law minister Sadanand Gowda, she said, “In cases where the accused are convicted for committing heinous crimes, the orders of the court may also include mandatory requirement of registration of the accused in local police station so that police can monitor their activities.”