NEW DELHI: The AAP government has made elaborate plans to rehabilitate the former juvenile rapist in Delhi itself. “His record of the last three years will be completely expunged,” said a source.
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The state government in a letter to the National Human Rights Commission dated December 14 stated, “In compliance of time to time directions of Hon’ble Juvenile Justice Board 2, Sewa Kutir Complex, Kingsway Camp, Delhi as well as pre-release plans of the juvenile in conflict with law, the said juvenile has undergone various rehabilitation trainings viz, cooking training by NGO Subhikshika Welfare Society and cutting and tailoring course by NGO Vidya Jyoti Welfare Associate as per the aptitude and wishes express by the Juvenile in Conflict with law before Hon’ble Juvenile Justice Board.”
Contrary to the claims of the Delhi government, the juvenile was least interested in any cutting and tailoring training programme. When The Sunday Standard checked with the chairperson of NGO Vidya Jyoti, Welfare Associate, Neera Bhargava, she said they had stopped giving him any training at the Special Home where the juvenile was lodged. “His attitude was totally indifferent. We tried to train him for few months but he was not interested. I believe he does not even know the basics of cutting,” said another member of the NGO.
The government has roped in another NGO to help the criminal to start a small shop. Interestingly, government sources said that they will keep a tab on him since they have to file a reply in the Delhi High Court about his rehabilitation process in eight months.
The government had also stated the juvenile was given regular psychological counselling and assessed by the counsellor of the institution. He was also assessed from time to time either by a professional counsellor or a psychiatrist of the NGO Expression India.
“He restrained from joining various reformative programmes in the special home. He was quite a hardened individual,” said a source.
Mumbai Blasts Juvenile Had Got a Life Term
A landmark judgment delivered by a bench of Justices P Sathasivam and BS Chauhan on March 21, 2013, had rejected the plea of 1993 Mumbai blasts accused, Muhammad Moin Faridulla Qureshi. Moin was seeking leniency under the Juvenile Justice Act arguing that he was just 17 years and three months old when participated in the serial blasts in Mumbai, filling RDX and iron scraps at Al-Hussaini Building and lobbing hand-grenades at Mahim Fishermen’s colony.
“If prosecution had cited this judgment challenging his trial by JJB, he may not have been allowed to walk free in three years as his crime was equally heinous and gruesome,” sources said.
The derailment of justice
Dec 16, 2012: A 23-year-old physiotherapy student raped by six people, including a juvenile, inside a moving bus.
Dec 17: Bus driver Ram Singh and four other accused arrested.
Dec 21: Sixth accused, who claims to be 17-and-a-half years old, arrested from Anand Vihar in east Delhi.
Dec 29: Nirbhaya succumbs to her injuries at a Singapore hospital.
Jan 3, 2013: A case of rape, murder, kidnapping, destruction of evidence, and attempted murder is filed against all the five accused in the case.
Jan 28: JJB declares one accused as a minor.
July 11: JJB in New Delhi defers verdict on the minor accused to July 25.
July 25: JJB defers verdict on minor accused till Aug 5.
Dec 11, 2015: Swamy files plea in Delhi HC challenging his releaseDec 18, 2015: Court declines stay on juvenile release
Sept: IB confirms juvenile’s radicalisation by a juvenile militant.
July 2015: Swamy writes to PMO claiming that the juvenile has been radicalised
Aug 31: JJB sentences the minor to a 3-year stay in a special home