Release of Delhi gangrape juvenile convict sparks protests

A large number of protesters comprising mostly students and activists gathered to protest against the release of a juvenile gang rapist near India Gate here Sunday.

The juvenile convict in the gang rape case on Dec.16, 2012, has been released and sent to an NGO in Delhi, Press Trust of India quoted police as saying.

Several police teams, including women officials, were deployed to disperse the protesters, who were shouting slogans against the central and Delhi governments.

Scores of protesters, including the victim's parents were detained by the police.

Asha Devi, the mother of the paramedic student who was gangraped in a moving bus, had to be convinced and put inside a bus along with her husband, Badri Singh Pandey, and other protesters, said police.

The gang rape shocked India after a medical student was brutally raped and beaten by six persons, including a juvenile, on a moving bus in south Delhi. She died of internal injuries days later.