Three years to the day a young medical student was gang-raped and tortured on a moving bus in Delhi, an incident that shook India to the core, her mother revealed her name to the world, saying: "My daughter was Jyoti Singh and I am not ashamed to name her."
At a remembrance meeting organized in the heart of the capital, Asha Devi said she was proud to name her daughter, who came to symbolize the fight for women's safety and security and became the catalyst for major changes to the law on crimes against women.
Speaking on the youngest of the six rapists, who is expected to be released from a reform home on December 19, she said: "On her third anniversary, the culprit is being set free. Where is the justice is in that?"
Both parents have strongly appealed against the release of the "juvenile".
Actor Shabana Azmi, who attended the meet with her husband and renowned writer Javed Akhtar, said: "They (Jyoti's parents) have changed rape discourse in the country. We need to 'shift the blame, shift the shame'."
In Parliament, where actor-politician Hema Malini said the "juvenile" should be given the same punishment as the other convicts, who have been sentenced to death.
"The juvenile did more harm than the others. He has a devilish mind. He will not be corrected in rehabilitation. He should be punished so that everyone fears the law of the country," Ms Malini, a BJP parliamentarian, said in the Lok Sabha.
The convict was below 18 when he and five others attacked the student and her friend. He was sentenced to three years in a reform home, a punishment seen by many as disproportionate to the enormity of the crime and spurred demands for changes in the law so teenagers involved in serious crimes can be tried as adults.
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