Youngest convict in 2012 Delhi gang rape is released from correction centre, his lawyer tells the BBC.

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Legal challenges and protests from the victim’s parents had failed to prevent the release.

The rapist, who cannot be named as he was a minor at the time of the crime, was sentenced to three years in a reform facility in August 2013.

The rape and the subsequent death of the woman caused global outrage.