The youngest rapist in the December 16 gang-rape was released from a correctional home on Sunday.
On a day that the youngest rapist in the December 16 Delhi gang-rape case was released from a correctional home, the BJP today advocated for changes in the country's juvenile justice system so that the underage who commit heinous crimes are not allowed to walk free.
"Incidents like Nirbhaya should not be repeated in the country, being a juvenile should not be an excuse to set a criminal free. The law must be changed and the law should punish such a criminal so as to send a good message," BJP National Vice President Shyam Jaju told reporters in Jammu today.
Asked why juvenile justice system was not being amended when his party was in power at the Centre, he said, "legal justice system does not work with the interference of any government, it works as per law and there should be change in it".
Mr Jaju said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was very 'sensitive' toward the issues of women security in the country and changes in the laws protecting women would be made in the days to come.
He termed as "not true" the allegations levelled by the opposition parties that the NDA government was 'misusing' the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for political vendetta.
"There is not a single example (of the misuse of CBI). The 18-months-long tenure of Narendra Modi so far there is not a single instance when the CBI has been misused," he said.
The BJP leader accused Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of spreading lies on the issue of CBI raid at the office of the Principal Secretary, saying the raid was on a 'corrupt officer' and not on the office of the Delhi Chief Minister.
"If a corrupt officer of Arvind Kejriwal is raided, he (Kejriwal) has a habit of speaking lies as he says that his office was raided, the raid was on his Secretary," he said.
"The language he (Kejriwal) used against the prime minister and the allegations he levelled against him will not be tolerated by the people of this country," he said.