Juvenile convict in the December 16 gangrape and murder case will not be freed for the time being. Delhi Police had earlier been contemplating to book him under the stringent National Security Act.
Senior police officers had met senior lawyers on November 22 and sought an opinion on the same. However, sources say that the counsel gave them an option that that NSA won't stand in court. The detention under National Security Act can be stretched for one year.
The convict, who is now 21, is likely to be released in December when he completes three years in the correctional home.
In September, an Intelligence Bureau report said that he had been radicalised by one of the suspect of the 2011 Delhi High Court blast. The report said that the teenager was being motivated for jihad.
The Home Ministry, too, has sought an opinion from the Delhi Police. A high-level meeting was called by the ministry which was attended by the Director of Intelligence Bureau, Special Secretary of Internal Security with MHA and Delhi Police Commissioner.
Meanwhile, the NHRC had issued notices to Centre and Delhi government on a complaint by the parents of the December 16 gangrape victim, apprehending threat to society from the juvenile convict in the case. The Commission has taken cognisance of the complaint by the parents of the girl, who was brutally gangraped and murdered in Delhi on December 16, 2012.
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