India toughens law for young criminals after outrage over rapist release

Politicians in India have voted to lower to 16 the age at which a person can be tried as an adult for heinous crimes.

India toughens law for young criminals after outrage over rapist release

Politicians in India have voted to lower to 16 the age at which a person can be tried as an adult for heinous crimes.

The changes made to the existing juvenile law reduce the age from 18, and follow anger over the release of a minor convicted in a fatal 2012 gang rape who served the maximum sentence of three years in a reform home.

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