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Outrage in India

Teenage accused of Delhi gangrape handed soft sentence

AFP, Netti Delhi
An Indian court yesterday sentenced a teenager to three years in a juvenile detention centre over the fatal gang-rape of a student in New Delhi, a crime that sparked revulsion and angry protests.
The juveniles' court found the teenager guilty over the brutal assault on the student on a moving bus last December, in the first and long-delayed verdict on the incident that shone a spotlight on India's treatment of women.
The family of the 23-year-old victim reacted with anger and dismay, calling for the teenager to be hanged and reigniting debate about whether India is too lenient on its juvenile offenders.
"It's a crime to be born a girl in India," the victim's father, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said in angry comments to NDTV outside the court.
"Girls are not safe in India," he added, stressing that the family would continue to fight for a tougher punishment.
His daughter, a physiotherapy student, died of internal injuries two weeks after being raped and assaulted with an iron bar allegedly by six men on the night of December 16. Her male companion was also beaten up before both were thrown bleeding from the bus.
The teenager, who was 17 at the time of the attack, was given the maximum penalty yesterday after he was tried as a juvenile, and the three years will include the time he has already spent in custody.
The teenager's conduct will be observed during his time in a special juvenile home, and his sentence reviewed and possibly reduced for good behaviour, his lawyer Rajesh Tiwari told AFP.
The perceived leniency of the sentence sparked further anger in India where the suspects, some of whom have been beaten up in jail, are public hate figures.
Outside the court, up to 20 protesters screamed "Hang the juvenile too" and "We want justice."
The separate trial of the four adult suspects in a fast-track court is hearing closing arguments and is expected to wrap up in the next few weeks, with the men facing a possible death sentence if convicted.
The fifth adult, the suspected ring leader, died in jail in an apparent suicide.
The attack brought simmering anger about endemic sex crime in India to the boil, and sparked weeks of sometimes violent street protests in the country.
The outrage pushed parliament to pass a new law toughening sentences for rapists, while there was a round of public soul-searching over the rising tide of violence against women.