Bilkis Bano case – pressnews

[ad_1] Sharad Pawar re-elected as NCP chief for four years today at national convention in Delhi.New Delhi: Calling it "shocking", former union minister Sharad Pawar today hit out at PM Narendra Modi over the release of 11 rapists and murderers in the Bilkis Bano case from the 2002 riots in his home state Gujarat last month.In a series of tweets, the veteran politician from Maharashtra juxtaposed the convicts' release with the Prime Minister's August 15 speech. He had pointed this out while speaking to reporters in Thane last month. "On the one hand, the PM talks about respect for women," he tweeted, in Hindi, "But in the state from which he comes, where our sister Bilkis Bano and her children suffered atrocities, where her family members were murdered, the BJP reduced the punishment of ...

[ad_1] The Gujarat government released the 11 convicts on August 15.New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Gujarat government to file the entire record of the proceedings in the Bilkis Bano case, including the remission order given to the 11 convicts who had gang-raped Bano and murdered her family members during the 2002 Godhra riots.A bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and BV Nagarathna granted two weeks to the Gujarat government to produce all relevant records in the case.The bench also issued notice to the Gujarat government and convicts on a plea filed by TMC MP Mahua Moitra against the release of the convicts.Earlier, the top court had issued notice to the Gujarat government on the plea filed by Communist Party of India (Marxist) member Subhashini Ali, journalist Revati Laul, ...

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