India lowers trial age to 16 after Delhi gang rape furore

India passed legislation lowering the age at which someone can be tried for rape and other crimes to 16, spurred into action by an uproar over the release of a minor convicted in a 2012 fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a Delhi bus.

Parents of the victim had led demands for the law to be amended after their daughter was repeatedly raped and beaten by the 17-year-old minor as well as five adult companions.

The woman died of her injuries two weeks later at a Singapore hospital.