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December 16 gangrape: Victim's parents say convicted juvenile still a threat

There is no proof that he is no longer a threat to society and especially women. Moreover, nobody knows how he looks. How do we know we are safe. Will police guarantee the safety of my family, said the father to dna.

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As the juvenile, convicted in the 2012 brutal gang-rape and murder of a physiotherapy student in Delhi, is all set to be released later this month, parents of victim have almost given up on the hope on his release being stalled.

Parents while speaking to dna also reacted sharply to reports that the authorities were planning to send him to an NGO where he would be closely watched. Nirbhaya's parents had petitioned the home ministry, courts and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in an effort to stop the convict's release.

"There is no proof that he is no longer a threat to society and especially women. Moreover, nobody knows how he looks. How do we know we are safe. Will police guarantee the safety of my family," said the father to dna.

"They are talking about sending him to an NGO. But will his activities be monitored all the time. I don't think so. Murders take place in jails and the government thinks that they can control this culprit when he is freely roaming outside," the father said. "The government is fooling us," he added

The NHRC had issued notices to Centre and Delhi government on a complaint by the parents, apprehending threat to society from the juvenile convict in the case who is set to be released next month.

"They have stated that the juvenile, who was largely responsible for the death of their daughter and was the most brutal amongst all the offenders, is supposed to be released sometime in December.

"They have submitted that such persons are threat to the life and liberty of the common man. There should be a mechanism to keep a strict check on them so that people are not subjected to any risk of being harmed. The complainants have also stated that the rate of recidivism (committing crimes again) is fairly high," said an NHRC statement.

The accused juvenile, now a 20-year-old was convicted for gangraping Nirbhaya in a moving bus on 16 December 2012, along with five other accomplices. During the course of investigation it came to fore that it was him that had brutalised the victim more than any other accused.

"There was talk of placing charges under the National Security Act (NSA) in order to keep the convict in jail but nothing concrete has come out so far," said a senior police officer.

The other accused included Ram Singh, Vinay Sharma, Vinay Kumar, and brothers, Mukesh and Pawan Gupta. All of them were sentenced to death by the Delhi High Court and Ram Singh committed suicide in Tihar Jail in 2013. The juvenile was given the maximum sentence of three years' imprisonment in a reform facility and is supposed to be released in December.

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