The youngest man to be convicted in the 2012 Delhi gangrape will return to his life in Delhi this December, walking out of the Juvenile Welfare Home. While those who had rallied for ‘death-even-for-the-juvenile’ (prosecution claimed he raped the victim twice and violated her with an iron rod) wonder if he’s still a threat to women, the Intelligence Bureau worries that he may be a threat to all of society.

An infamous friend the now-20-year-old made while at the home, is posing to be the problem. The Kashmiri youth arrested for his alleged role in the 2011 Delhi High Court blast, housed in the same cell as the minor for a year, managed, says the IB, to convince him to join the jihad for Kashmir. To ‘reverse’ the radicalisation, the union home ministry directed that he undergo counter radicalisation. It’s only after they are certain he has been ‘reversed’, that they will release him.