NEW DELHI (AP) — Scores of protesters took to the streets of India's capital on Sunday to protest the release of a juvenile convicted in the fatal 2012 gang rape of a young woman aboard a moving bus that shook the country. 
 
 The man, who was short of his 18th birthday at the time of the crime, was to finish his three-year term in a reform home on Sunday. 
 
 Several activists and politicians have demanded that he not be released until it can be proven that he has been reformed. The protesters were led by the parents of the woman who was attacked. 
 
 On Friday, the Delhi High Court rejected a petition to extend the man's term, saying that he has served the maximum sentence under the law. India's top court is set to hear another such petition Monday. 
 
 News reports said the convict was moved Sunday from the reform home where he had been kept to a new home under the care of a children's rights group. Phone calls to the police went unanswered. 
 
 The brutality of the December 2012 attack in the heart of New Delhi shocked this country of 1.2 billion, where sexual violence is rampant. 
 
 The woman and a male friend were returning home from seeing a movie at an upscale mall when they were tricked by the attackers into getting on the bus, which the men had taken out for a joyride. 
 
 The attackers beat the victim's friend and took turns raping her. They penetrated her with a rod, leaving severe internal injuries that led to her death two weeks later. 
 
 Four men were convicted of rape and murder in an unusually fast trial for India's chaotic justice system. A fifth man died in prison. 
 
 The four adults who went to trial confessed to the attack but later retracted their confessions, saying they'd been tortured into admitting their involvement. Legal appeals against their death sentences are pending in the Supreme Court. 
 
 In response to the attack and the widespread public protests it provoked, India's government rushed through legislation doubling prison terms for rapists to 20 years and criminalizing voyeurism, stalking and the trafficking of women. ||||| Police said Wednesday they have arrested a man accused of raping an Irish woman who volunteered at a children's charity in the Indian city of Kolkata. 
 
 Indian policemen keep a check on vehicles after an American woman was gang-raped Tuesday in the northern Indian resort town of Manali, India, Tuesday, June 4, 2013. The 30-year-old woman was picked up... (Associated Press) 
 
 Indian policemen keep a check on vehicles after an American woman was gang-raped Tuesday in the northern Indian resort town of Manali, India, Tuesday, June 4, 2013. The 30-year-old woman was picked up... (Associated Press) 
 
 The suspect, a local businessman, had attended a party the woman hosted to celebrate her 21st birthday on Friday, said a police official who declined to be identified because he wasn't authorized to speak to reporters. The woman told police that she later went to the man's house, where she drank a cup of tea and passed out and then was raped. 
 
 Few other details were immediately available. 
 
 The reported assault comes as other attacks against women have heightened concerns about sexual violence in India. 
 
 On Tuesday, police reported that an American tourist was gang-raped in the northern Indian resort town of Manali. Three men picked her up in a truck while she was hitchhiking, then drove to a secluded spot and raped her, police officer Sher Singh said. 
 
 On Wednesday, another police official in Manali, Neel Chand, said three men were detained on the basis of the description the American woman provided but were later released after the victim said they were not her attackers. 
 
 "The only clue the victim provided the police is the color of the truck and a cracked windshield, which may not be accurate because it was at night and the light was very dim. So there still is nothing conclusive in this case," Chand said. 
 
 In March, six men were arrested in the gang-rape of a Swiss cyclist, and a British hotel guest jumped from a third-floor window fearing a sexual attack when the hotel owner tried to force his way into her room. 
 
 The fatal gang-rape of an Indian student on a bus in New Delhi in December sparked protests demanding better protection for women. In response, the government passed a law increasing prison terms for rape and making voyeurism, stalking, acid attacks and the trafficking of women punishable under criminal law. 
 
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 Associated Press writer Chonchui Ngashangva in New Delhi contributed to this story. ||||| NEW DELHI (AFP) - Indian police investigating the gang-rape of a US tourist by a group of truckers said Wednesday they had identified the type of vehicle used in the attack and collected forensic evidence. 
 
 The 30-year-old American hitched a lift in the truck Monday night in Manali, a tourist destination in the foothills of the Himalayas, after struggling to find a taxi to return to her hotel. 
 
 The driver and two accomplices then abducted her and took her to a secluded spot where they raped her for over an hour, she told police. 
 
 "She is recovering fast and helping us move forward with the investigation. She has given us details of how the men looked, what they were wearing, which will help us," senior police officer V.K. Dhawan told AFP by phone. 
 
 "She has identified the truck type. It is typically used to transport construction materials so we are checking construction sites to see which trucks were in use at that time," he added. 
 
 Police also have forensic evidence and have identified tyre marks from the site where the attack occurred, Dhawan added. 
 
 The incident follows the alleged rape of a 21-year-old Irish charity worker in the eastern city of Kolkata at the weekend and comes as India tries to fight widespread sex crime with tougher laws. 
 
 More than 2,000 trucks a day ply the Manali highway which connects the town with remote Himalayan villages. 
 
 The woman, who cannot be identified under Indian law, is staying at a hotel under police protection in the Manali area, some 500 kilometres (300 miles) north of the capital New Delhi. 
 
 The victim told police she would meet US embassy officials later on Wednesday, Dhawan said. 
 
 Mass protests erupted across India in December and January following the fatal gang-rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi, a crime which brought simmering anger among women to the surface. 
 
 A survey by an Indian trade body this year found the number of female tourists visiting the country had dropped by 35 percent following several sex attacks that made global headlines. 
 
 Measures passed by Indian lawmakers in March increased punishments for sex offenders to include the death penalty if a victim dies and a minimum 20-year prison sentence for gang-rape.
– India today convicted three Nepalese men in the gang rape of an American tourist in a small Himalayan town, reports the Wall Street Journal, with each of the men drawing a 20-year prison term. The woman, then 30, now 31, was assaulted after accepting a ride back to her guesthouse from a truck driver, who, along with two other men, allegedly assaulted her and left her by the side of the road. The verdict comes down one day after the anniversary of the fatal gang rape aboard a New Delhi bus that catapulted rape into a major issue in India—and imposed a 20-year minimum sentence for it. There were protest rallies and candlelight vigils in memory of the event around the country yesterday, the AP reports. One Bollywood actress led a troupe of street performers and performed plays all along the fateful bus route. "I don't think things have changed," one protester told al-Jazeera. "It's just that women are less fearful of saying what's happening."