Badaun: While the juvenile convict in December 16 gang-rape case must be heaving a sigh of relief as he is all set to walk free today, after serving three years in a correction home, some residents of his native village in Badaun are not happy with the prospect of his return.
The residents of the village say that a person who had committed such a heinous crime had no place in the village.
The accused, now 21-year-old, was convicted of brutally assaulting and raping a 23-year-old medical student in a moving bus in Delhi on December 16, 2012, along with five others.
The girl succumbed to her injuries in a Singapore hospital on December 29, 2012.
Speaking about the repercussions of the act that the boy did, one of the elders in the village said that villagers working in other parts of the country were seen targeted and look at with suspicion.
“They were even denied employment,” he said.
Meanwhile, family members of the juvenile convict are eagerly waiting for his return.
The family members said that he should be given a chance to repent and start a new life after returning to the village.
While no one from the family would go to Delhi to receive him, the convict’s mother says that she wishes to see him back in the village.
She said that her husband was mentally challenged and her two daughters worked as labourers to support the family, therefore she needed her son to come back.
The Delhi High Court had on Friday refused to stay the release of the convict, stating he could not be stopped from walking free under the existing provisions of law.
