On 6 October, 33 boys barged inside the juvenile home centre at Mukherjee Nagar and created ruckus for about eight hours. They also torched down the superintendent’s office, triggering blasts by setting gas cylinders on fire.
In the melee, 22 boys have escaped. Out of these 22, five absconders murdered a woman in Anand Vihar area of East Delhi. later, they were arrested
On 7 August, unhappy with the administration, over two dozen boys staying at a juvenile correction home at Majnu Ka Tila North Delhi, created a ruckus inside, with many of them climbing the rooftop, pelting stones at the neighbours, hurling stones on moving cars, setting the blankets and bed sheets on fire and even kept a caretaker hostage for hours