The Delhi gang rape case of December 2012, in which a young woman was brutally assaulted sexually and physically by six persons including a juvenile and died of her injuries after two weeks, shook the conscience of the country and evoked wide-scale public protests demanding exemplary punishment to the perpetrators and triggering collective introspection on the safety of women. In the aftermath of the incident, the criminal law was amended by substituting the definition of rape with extensive one and making the punishment severer. Batch of petitions were filed in the Supreme Court twice for lowering the age limit of juvenility, as a juvenile was one of the most brutal perpetrators of the incident, and attempts were made to amend the law relating to juvenile. A critical analysis of various aspects of the issue has been made in this research paper.