Court no to reversing release of gang rapist
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India鈥檚 Supreme Court yesterday rejected an appeal against the release of the youngest convict in an infamous fatal gang-rape, sparking fury from the victim鈥檚 parents who said the ruling was a betrayal.
Amid growing outrage at the freeing of the 20-year-old, judges said there were no legal grounds to allow a petition by the Delhi Commission for Women, which wanted to reverse his release from a youth correctional facility.
At a hearing presided over by Justice AK Goel and UU Lalit, the court said 鈥渢here is nothing in the law鈥 that would allow them to order him back behind bars and he therefore could not be detained any longer.
鈥淲e asked for an interim order restraining his release but the court did not entertain this,鈥 said the women鈥檚 commission chairwoman Swati Maliwal.
鈥淭he entire system has failed the women of this country,鈥 she said outside the court.
The ruling was greeted with despair by the parents of the victim, 23-year-old Jyoti Singh who has become the symbol of the plight of women in a country with frightening levels of sexual violence. 鈥淲hat can I say? There are no words to describe our disappointment,鈥 her father Badrinath Singh said. 鈥淲e don鈥檛 understand all these laws. We only know that the system has failed us.鈥
The convict, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was one of a group of six who abducted the young physiotherapy student. They lured her onto an off-duty bus and then took it in turns to rape her and violate her with a metal rod before throwing her onto the road. She died of her injuries nearly a fortnight later in a Singapore hospital.
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