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Bilkis case: Women will not feel safe by PM Narendra Modi's empty words on empowerment, says Congress MP Amee Yagnik

AHMEDABAD: Women will not feel safe by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "empty words" on their empowerment, senior Congress leader Amee Yagnik said on Wednesday targetting the Gujarat government over the premature release of 11 life-term convicts in the 2002 Bilkis Bano case.

All the 11 convicts serving a life sentence for the post-Godhra Bilkis Bano gang rape and murder of seven members of her family walked out of Godhra sub-jail on Monday after the state government allowed their release under its remission policy.

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