The internationalisation of childhood and the formation of children as a distinct social class are the fundamental roots of juvenile justice. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) (1989) altered the epistemology of juvenile justice with its Eurocentric image of children as right-holders. In 1992, India ratified the CRC, which defined 'child' universally, regardless of gender, for the first time, challenging the gendered subjectivity of the 'female kid.' Such an epistemological shift, which I refer to as the birth of a new mode of delivering juvenile justice, did not persist long, and one gruesome episode, together with mediatized demonization of male youngsters and growing social discontent about women's safety, transformed the scene.