New Delhi: Delhi Police on Sunday detained the parents of Jyoti Singh popularly known as Nirbhaya and took them to Parliament Street police station as they were protesting against the release of juvenile convicted for her gangrape and murder. Several NSUI and ABVP members protesting at Rajpath were also removed by the police.
Despite the juvenile completing his term in the remand home, Nirbhaya's family is adamant and asking why are people trying to save a criminal accused of a heinous crime." I am not scared of going to the jail. Today everyone is trying to save the criminal. There is so much police force to save him. If this force is deployed for the safety of women no woman will get raped," Nirbhaya's mother said.
Meanwhile, the juvenile convict in the December 16 gangrape was on Sunday released and sent to an NGO at an undisclosed destination with police no longer guarding him.
"We have left him with an NGO," police sources said. Government sources said when asked two days back whether he would like to go home in Badaun in Uttar Pradesh or to an NGO, he opted for the latter citing security concerns.
The release became possible notwithstanding the Delhi Commission for Women's effort late on Saturday night to stall it failed after the Supreme Court held a sitting post-midnight and refused to stay it.
In its order, the Supreme Court declined to stop the release of the juvenile offender and posted the matter before a vacation bench that will hear the matter on Monday.
Swati Maliwal, chairperson of the DCW which had approached the Supreme Court after the Delhi High Court had also declined to stay his release, hoped that since the matter has become sub judice, the government and Delhi Police will not release the juvenile offender.
"We are helpless as far as the release is concerned. Our government, whether Centre or state, they only listen to you when you protest and get lathicharged, else they don't care," said the victim's father Badri Singh Pandey.
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