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Delhi gang rape: Nirbhaya's parents, protesters hold candle light march at Jantar Mantar

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December 22, 2015 01:01 IST
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Parents of the December 16 gang rape victim participated in a candlelight march at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Monday demanding justice for their daughter and immediate passage of the Juvenile Justice Act in Parliament.

Nirbhaya's parents stand with protesters in a candle light march. Photograph: PTI

"We participated in a candle light march here along with hundreds of protesters. We will take our battle for justice across India to awaken governments and law-makers. We want the other convicts to be hanged and the law for stricter punishment of juveniles to be immediately passed," said the victim's mother Asha Devi.

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a last-minute plea filed by Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal against release of the juvenile offender.

The convict was sent to an NGO in Delhi on Sunday.

He, along with five others, had gangraped and murdered the 23-year-old paramedical student in a moving bus on December 16, 2012, an incident that shook the nation and led to widespread protests.

Devi said notwithstanding the release of the juvenile convict on Sunday, she and her husband Badri Singh will continue their fight to ensure death penalty for the rest of the convicts who are currently lodged in Tihar jail. 

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