Cold-blooded brutality and blood-thirst marked the murders and gangrape of at least seven persons, said Bilkis Bano, speaking through her lawyer on Monday in the Supreme Court. She recounted the deaths of at least seven persons, including her three-year-old child, at the hands of rioters in Gujarat in 2002.
“Parts of their bodies were smashed in. Heads and chests…” advocate Shobha Gupta, for Ms. Bano, submitted before a Bench led by Justice B.V. Nagarathna.
She recounted that of the 14 killed on March 3 at Pannivel village, the bodies of only seven were found. “The other bodies went missing,” Ms. Gupta told the Bench on the opening day of the hearing.