A vacation bench comprising Justices AK Goel and UU Lalit heard the DCW's plea to extend the custody of the juvenile in the December 16 Delhi gang rape and murder case.

The court observed that everything has happened in accordance with the law. There is no legislative sanction to detain the juvenile in the December16 case. Three years is the maximum period for which the juvenile could be detained.


DCW chief Swati Maliwal told the media outside the court that the time for candle marches was over. It was now time for women to take up mashaals (fire torches). 

In a midnight drama on Saturday, the DCW appealed to the Supreme Court to bar juvenile's release. DCW chief Swati Maliwal reached the apex court at midnight to file a Special Leave Petition but the court had said there was no urgency for a midnight hearing and has listed the hearing for Monday.


Maliwal had said, "We have filed our petition. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear our case on Monday. It has been listed as the third item on the list, the matter is sub-judice. I hope the juvenile will not be released till the hearing."The grounds which has been taken in the appeal against the Delhi High Court order said that no mental assessment of the state of mind of the juvenile offender has been taken into account for his release.