New Delhi: Parents of the December 2012 gangrape victim Tuesday keenly watched deliberations in Rajya Sabha as women and child and development minister Maneka Gandhi piloted the JJB.
The parents of the victim watched the proceedings from the visitor’s gallery. Mahila Congress leader Shobha Oza and former chief of Delhi Commission for Women Barkha Singh were seen accompanying them in the gallery.
The parents welcomed the passage of the long-pending JJB saying that it will deter juveniles from committing such crime against women even though they rued that their daughter has been denied justice. “Although we are satisfied that the amendments have been passed as these will help victims of heinous crime get justice, there is grief that our daughter Jyoti was denied justice. The juvenile convict who was the most brutal was set free despite our repeated pleas and demands,” said the mother Asha Devi.
