New Delhi: Delhi Police is contemplating to book the juvenile convict of December 16 gangrape and murder under the National Security Act.
The juvenile convict's three-year term in the rehabilitation centre is coming to an end on December 16 even as his four adult accomplices await the Supreme Court's decision on their appeal against death penalty given to them. As per law he is to be set free after completion of the term.
According to an IB report, the juvenile convict, most savage of the rapists, came in contact with Kashmiri juvenile Abid, accused of Delhi high court blast case and both had been sharing the same cell at the juvenile home for the last seven or eight months.
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The home ministry was in a fix what to do with the juvenile convict amid reports that he has turned a radical Islamic hardliner during his stay in the rehabilitation centre
It has also sought an opinion from the Delhi Police. The detention under National Security Act can stretch for one year.
Last Saturday, Delhi police officers held a meeting with senior lawyers seeking legal opinion on whether detention can pass judicial scrutiny.
According to a leading daily,"authorities want to stop the juvenile from leaving Delhi or go to Srinagar -- the native place of the convict who indoctrinated him -- as any such move may stoke more trouble and communal tensions."
Meanwhile, the parents of the December 16 gangrape and murder victim have demanded that the face of juvenile convict who was the "most brutal" of all the six offenders, should be shown to the world before he is released citing "he is a threat to the society".
Parents of the victim have made representations to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
"We have learnt from the media that the juvenile was getting indoctrinated in jihad inside the juvenile home which is a very dangerous thing.
"Also, he was the most brutal of all the six and he is showing no signs of remorse about what he has done. His release will be a threat to the society. We don't want that what has happened with out daughter is repeated," said the father of the woman adding, "if at all he is to be released, his face should be shown to the world."
