Suspect in gang rape is juvenile

A juvenile court ruled yesterday that a suspect in the fatal gang rape of a young woman in New Delhi last month was a juvenile at the time of the attack.

A lawyer present in the court said a magistrate of the Juvenile Justice Board announced the decision after going over documents presented to the court by officials of the suspect’s elementary school that indicated that he was under 18 years of age at the time of the Dec 16 attack.

The lawyer said that the suspect’s school documents showed him to be about six months short of his 18th birthday at the time.