Slumdwellers call for changes in juvenile law

September 02, 2013 11:27

Pinki Kumari, an 11-year-old schoolgirl and part-time rag-picker, is the youngest of 40 slum dwellers to sign a petition demanding harsher penalties for minors who commit crimes in India.

The petition -- addressed to the Indian president -- was drafted on Sunday by a group of sweepers and domestic workers in Noida, a city on the outskirts of New Delhi, a day after a juvenile court sentenced an 18-year-old to three years in a reformatory for gang-raping and murdering a 22-year-old physiotherapy student in the Indian capital in December. Read

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