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Why did the Gujarat government release all 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case? What is the difference between the old policy of 1992 and the present policy of 2014?

India’s Gujarat has set free 11 men convicted of the gang rape of a Muslim woman and the murder of her relatives during the state's 2002 riots.

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It is the exceptionalism in granting the release of 11 individuals that lies at the core of injustice in the Bilkis Bano case

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It was as recently as in April that the court had said that the State cannot exercise its remission powers arbitrarily

"We asked the jailer and learnt that their behaviour was good in the prison...also (some of the convicts) are Brahmins. They have good 'sanskaar' (values)," BJP MLA from Godhra C.K. Raulji said

Gujarat frees men serving life sentences for rape, and for murder of three-year-old daughter and other relatives