New Delhi, Sept 06: A juvenile court here today ordered two boys aged 13 and 14 years, who pleaded guilty before it in the Maulana Azad Medical College gangrape case, to be sent to special home till they attain majority. The Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) took into consideration the Social Investigation Report (SIR) of the two minors - which said they should be given vocational training for their employment and rehabilitation - and ordered them to be confined in special home "until they cease to be juvenile". Presiding officer of JJB Metropolitan Magistrate Santhosh Snehi Mann read out the sentence saying the juveniles were guilty of using criminal force for outraging the modesty of a woman, robbery, voluntarily causing hurt in committing robbery and criminal intimidation. The board said the duo needs rigorous disciplinary control and ordered them to be removed from society as "they are not mentally normal and do not have a congenial home."


"They have criminal traits and their parents have no control over them. Both cannot be allowed to go home and cannot be left on probation also. Exposure at this tender age will make them hardended criminals", it added.

A week after the sensational incident, prime accused Rahul was arrested by police on November 22. A fourth-year student of Maulana Azad Medical College was allegedly raped by three youth at knife point on the terrace of the "Khooni Darwaza" monument on the busy Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg. Bureau Report