New Delhi: Asha Devi, mother of December 16 gangrape victim, today said that the Supreme Court's decision to reject the petition against the release of juvenile convict is a certificate to all the minors to commit any crime including rape.
"By releasing the juvenile convict, all the courts have given encouragement to this heinous crime and have given certificate to all the juveniles that there is no provision in the law which can punish them and therefore they can commit any crime such as rape etc," Nirbhaya's mother said.
She said that the courts are actually concerned about the convicts and not the victims.
"The women of this country have always been betrayed and this has happened once again also. Nobody is concerned about women safety and there would never be any change in the Indian laws and women will never get justice," she said.
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Stating that she would fight till the law is changed, Asha Devi said, "I will not be defeated, the SC decision can't stop me, I have to fight a long battle, I will fight till the bill is passed and law is changed. The court is saying that the law does not permit further punishment for the juvenile but why is the case against other convicts still pending. Why have they not been hanged yet?"
Nirbhaya's father, Badri Singh Pandey, said that the courts have failed them and asked how many Nirbhayas would it take for the laws to change.
"We were not very hopeful that the Supreme Court will give a favourable verdict but I want to ask how many Nirbhayas are needed for the laws to change in the country. The court is not bothered about the concerns of the public....This fight is not just about Nirbhaya but for every girl who is unsafe in a country which has such laws," he said.
The Supreme Court today dismissed a plea for halting the release of the juvenile accused in the December 16, 2012 gang-rape.
The convict in the Nirbhaya gangrape case, who is now 20 years old, was a juvenile when he committed the heinous crime in 2012 along with his friends in a moving bus in the national capital.
He was tried under the Juvenile Justice Act and ordered to be kept in a remand home for three years. He was released on December 20.
