The Supreme Court has dismissed the plea of the December 16, 2012 gang-rape victim's parents for sending the juvenile convict to face trial in a regular court. 

The convict who was 17 years old when the young woman was fatally gang-raped on a Delhi bus will not be tried by a regular court, the Supreme Court said today, rejecting the request of the victim's parents.

The convict's trial was handled by a juvenile court and he was given the maximum sentence of three years at a reform home in September 2013. The parents of the woman who died say that the man who was tried as minor has been let off too easily.

As a juvenile convict, the man cannot be given the death sentence or a life term.

The Supreme Court also dismissed Subramanian Swamy's plea for giving
a fresh interpretation to the term 'juvenile' in the statute which fixes 18 year as the age of attaining majority.