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Bilkis Bano case: SC to hear pleas against premature release of 11 convicts today

The Supreme Court will hear a batch of pleas on Monday challenging the release of 11 convicts who had gang-raped Bilkis Bano and murdered her family members during the 2002 Godhra riots. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News · Mar 27, 2023

Bilkis Bano case: SC agrees to constitute new bench to hear plea against early release of 11 convicts

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that it will constitute a bench to hear a plea challenging the pre-mature release of 11 convicts who had gang-raped Bilkis Bano and murdered her family members during the 2002 Godhra riots. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News · Mar 22, 2023

Bilkis Bano Case: SC Assures Early Hearing Of Plea Against Pre-Mature Release Of 11 Convicts

The apex court assured Bilkis Bano, who challenged the pre-mature release of 11 convicts for gang-raping her and murdering her family members during the 2002 Godhra riots, that her plea against the remission granted to 11 convicts will be heard soon. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News · Feb 7, 2023

Some convicts in Bilkis Bano case are 'Brahmins with good sanskaar', says Gujarat BJP MLA

"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

The Hindu · Aug 19, 2022

‘Defies logic, based on a ruler's whimsy’: Front pages and editorials on release of Bilkis Bano convicts

Yesterday, 11 convicts walked out of a jail in Godhra. All of them had been handed life sentences in 2008 for gangraping Bilkis Bano during the 2002 Gujarat riots and murdering 14 of her family members, including her three-year-old child.

Newslaundry · Aug 17, 2022

2002 Gujarat riots: SC to hear bail plea of activist Teesta Setalvad on August 22

Ms. Setalvad and former DGP R.B. Sreekumar, both arrested in June, are accused of fabricating evidence to frame ‘innocent people’ in the post-Godhra riots cases

The Hindu · Aug 16, 2022

We were victims of politics, says Bilkis Bano case convict day after being freed

Bilkis Bano was 21 years old and five months pregnant when she was raped while fleeing the violence that broke out in the aftermath of the Sabarmati Express train burning incident at Godhra in 2002

The Hindu · Aug 16, 2022

Bilkis Bano gang rape case: All 11 life imprisonment convicts released under Gujarat government's remission policy

GODHRA: All the eleven convicts sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2002 post-Godhra Bilkis Bano gang rape case on Monday walked out of the Godhra sub-jail after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy, an official said. A special CBI court in Mumbai on January 21, 2008,…

The Times of India · Aug 15, 2022

He cheated death twice, in S6 fire and Ahmedabad attacks

AHMEDABAD: Lakshmandevsinh Chudasama, a 67-year-old resident of Ahmedabad’s Odhav area, has faced once in a lifetime trauma twice: he has survived the 2002 Godhra train conflagration and the 2008 serial blasts.

The Times of India · Feb 8, 2022