This week on NL Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal, and Mehraj D Lone of Newslaundry are joined by Mahesh Langa, senior assistant editor of the Hindu.
They discuss the release of the 11 men convicted of gangraping Bilkis Bano and killing her three-year-old daughter during the 2002 Gujarat communal carnage. Speaking about the technicalities of their remission, Mahesh says, “It’s not clear who took the final call." He talks about how this is a “special case where such a judgement is passed”.
