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Sarah Shamim

How did India’s Supreme Court send Bilkis Bano’s rapists back to jail?

The remission of the 11 men led to protests all over India [Indranil Mukherjee/AFP]

India’s Supreme Court on Monday restored life prison sentences for 11 men who had raped a Muslim woman, Bilkis Bano, during the communal riots in Gujarat in 2002.

The decision came after Bano and other petitioners challenged a decision by the Gujarat government, backed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, to set the convicted rapists free two years ago.

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