Supreme Court today dismissed the plea of the December 16, 2012 Delhi gangrape victim's parents for sending juvenile convict to face trial in regular court.

The juvenile, who was six months short of 18 years at the time of incident, was convicted for gang-rape and murder of the 23-year-old paramedic student . But he got away with a maximum of three years imprisonment mandated under the juvenile law by the Juvenile Justice Board. As a juvenile convict, the man cannot be given the death sentence or a life term.

The parents of the victim said that the man who was tried as minor has been let off too easily.

Meanwhile, the apex court also dismissed Subramanian Swamy's plea for giving fresh interpretation to the term 'juvenile' in the statute which fixes 18 year as the age of attaining majority.

On the night of December 16, 2012, the 23-year-old paramedic student was gang-raped and brutally assaulted by six persons including a juvenile in a moving bus. The four adult accused were tried by a fast-track court which awarded them death penalty. Another accused Ram Singh was found dead on March 11 in his cell in Tihar Jail and the trial against him has been abated.