Indore, Dismissing the juvenile accused's appeal against the sentence in the rape case of a four-year-old girl, the Madhya Pradesh High Court made a scathing observation that the government has not learned any lesson from the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape case and that juvenile accused are being dealt with too lightly in the country.
The courts of this country have raised their voice time and again, but the government has not been affected even a decade after the Nirbhaya case. The court also ordered a copy of its order to be sent to the Union Law Secretary.
In an order passed on September 11, Justice Subodh Abhyankar of the High Court's Indore bench made these scathing observations while dismissing the appeal filed by the accused against the lower court's sentence in the 2017 rape case of a four-year-old girl.
At the time of the rape incident in 2017, the age of the accused was 17 years. He escaped from a juvenile reformatory along with seven other boys in 2019, six months into his sentence.
Expressing displeasure over the development, the High Court said that this court is once again saddened to observe that juveniles are treated with great leniency in this country and the government has yet to learn any lesson from the horrors of Nirbhaya, the victims of such crimes. is disappointing.
The court said that in view of the medical evidence available in the present case, it did not require an expert to see how demonic his behavior was when he was a teenager and his mental state could also be ascertained from the fact that he ran away from the observation home. He might be lurking in some dark street corner for another hunt and there is no one to stop him.SS1MS
