Demonstrators demand Gujarat government revoke decision on men convicted over rape of Muslim woman Bilkis Bano in 2002
Protesters rally in New Delhi, India, against the Gujarat government’s recent decision to free 11 men jailed for gang raping a Muslim woman in 2002.Protesters rally in New Delhi, India, against the Gujarat government’s recent decision to free 11 men jailed for gang raping a Muslim woman in 2002.
The victim was pregnant when she was gang raped during communal violence in 2002 in Gujarat, which saw over 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, killed in some of the worst religious riots India has experienced since its 1947 independence from Britain. Seven members of the woman’s family, including her three-year-old daughter, were also killed in the violence.
Officials in Gujarat, where the Bharatiya Janata party of the prime minister, Narendra Modi, holds power, have said the convicts’ application for remission was granted because they had completed more than 14 years in jail. The men were eligible under a 1992 remission policy that was in effect at the time of their conviction, officials said.
The riots have long hounded Modi, who was Gujarat’s top elected official at the time, amid allegations that authorities allowed and even encouraged the bloodshed. Modi has repeatedly denied having any role and the supreme court has said it found no evidence to prosecute him.
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