{"id":264343,"date":"2022-11-30T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/?p=264343"},"modified":"2022-11-30T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T13:27:00","slug":"bilkis-bano-challenges-in-supreme-court-release-of-her-rapists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2022\/11\/30\/bilkis-bano-challenges-in-supreme-court-release-of-her-rapists\/","title":{"rendered":"Bilkis Bano Challenges In Supreme Court Release Of Her Rapists"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bilkis Bano was 21 when she was gang-raped by the 11 men in 2002 (FIle)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Bilkis Bano has approached the Supreme Court challenging the release of 11 men convicted of gang-raping her and killing her family in the 2002 Gujarat riots.<\/p>\n

The convicts were freed on August 15, Independence Day, by the Gujarat government under a past remission policy. The move sparked massive nationwide outrage, especially when images showed the rapists being garlanded and welcomed like heroes by a Hindu organisation.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court had said, on the petition of one of the convicts, that the Gujarat government could consider releasing him under the 1992 remission policy.<\/p>\n

Based on that ruling, the Gujarat government had released all 11 men. The Centre had also fast-tracked the release, clearing Gujarat’s move within two weeks.<\/p>\n

It would not have been possible if the Gujarat government had gone by the 2014 remission policy, which bars the release of rape and murder convicts.<\/p>\n

Bilkis Bano has said in her petition that Maharashtra, not Gujarat, should decide on releasing the men.<\/p>\n

Bilkis Bano was 21 when she was gang-raped by the men, who killed nine members of her family, including her three-year-old daughter, during the 2002 riots that swept through Gujarat after the Godhra train burning in which 59 pilgrims died.<\/p>\n

Her petition comes a day before Gujarat votes in the first of two rounds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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