New India law will try teens as adults for rape, murder
- 9 years ago
India's Parliament approved amendments to the country's long-standing juvenile law on Tuesday, paving the way for the prosecution of suspects, as young as 16 to18 years old, to be tried as adults if they are accused of such "heinous crimes."
The move comes two days after the youngest convicted rapist in the horrific 2012 gang rape in New Delhi was released because he was just shy of his 18th birthday on the night of the rape.
He served only three years in custody, a sentence that many felt amounted to a severe miscarriage of justice.
The freed teen is one of six men who repeatedly raped an Indian medical student on a moving Delhi bus in 2012, the victim's internal organs were damaged beyond repair, and she died of her injuries 13 days after the incident.
The move comes two days after the youngest convicted rapist in the horrific 2012 gang rape in New Delhi was released because he was just shy of his 18th birthday on the night of the rape.
He served only three years in custody, a sentence that many felt amounted to a severe miscarriage of justice.
The freed teen is one of six men who repeatedly raped an Indian medical student on a moving Delhi bus in 2012, the victim's internal organs were damaged beyond repair, and she died of her injuries 13 days after the incident.