The youngest convict in a fatal gang-rape on a bus in New Delhi three years ago has been released from a youth correctional facility, Indian police said.
"The convict was handed over to an NGO. He is no longer under the jurisdiction of the police," a Delhi police spokesman said.
"He has been given a new identity and his criminal record has been expunged," a police source added.
The youth and four other men were found guilty in the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman in December 2012.
During the trial prosecutors said the men lured the woman and a male friend onto a bus as they returned home from a shopping centre.
As the bus drove through the streets of the capital, the men repeatedly raped and tortured the woman before leaving her and her friend, naked and semi-conscious, on the road.
The friend survived but the woman died two weeks after the attack as a result of the injuries she sustained.
One of those arrested was later found dead in his prison cell.
News of the release was immediately condemned by the parents of the victim.
"Our fight was all about this convict not being allowed to walk free. If he has come out, what is the point of the hearing at the Supreme Court?" her mother told reporters.
"We want justice for our daughter."
The parents and women's rights groups have been opposing the release of the youngest attacker, mainly on the grounds that it was unclear if he had been rehabilitated and was ready to be reintegrated into society.
