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Behind the release of Bilkis Bano’s tormentors

As women’s groups and rights’ activists raise their voice against this arbitrary remission, the decision fits neatly into the BJP’s political paradigm

The Hindu

Supreme Court may hear plea against remission in Bilkis Bano case

CJI tells counsel to file case records

The Hindu

Amid ex-servicemen agitation, Gujarat hikes compensation for slain army personnel’s kin from ₹1 lakh to ₹1 crore

500 ex-servicemen currently protesting in Gandhinagar for various demands

The Hindu

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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Deputy CM Manish Sisodia slam BJP in Gujarat

Targetting the Gujarat Govt, Arvind Kejriwal said the condition of State-run schools in the State is the testimony of 27 years of “misgovernance” of the ruling BJP

The Hindu

Drug hauls from Gujarat | ‘Ease of doing drug business’, asks Rahul Gandhi in an attack on PM Modi

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s attack came days after the Anti-Narcotics Cell of Mumbai Police busted a mephedrone manufacturing unit in Gujarat and seized drugs worth ₹1,026 crore

The Hindu

Supreme Court issues notice to Gujarat Govt on activist Teesta Setalvad’s bail plea

Kapil Sibal argued that the FIR, on which Teesta Setalvad had been arrested, was a mere “recitation” of observations made by the SC judgment in the Zakia Jafri case

The Hindu

Lumpy skin disease in cattle spreads to over 8 States and UTs; 7,300 animals dead so far

Lumpy skin disease is a contagious viral disease that affects cattle and causes fever, nodules on the skin and can also lead to death

The Hindu

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Explained | The remission laws that paved the way for release of the Bilkis Bano case convicts

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?

The Hindu

Two Cabinet Ministers in Gujarat divested of Revenue and Road & Building portfolios

Rajendra Trivedi stripped off the Revenue portfolio while Purnesh Modi lost Road and Building department

The Hindu

Kejriwal, Sisodia to visit Gujarat on August 22 to 'guarantee' education and health

The CBI carried out searches at 31 places, which included premises related to Manish Sisodia in Delhi as well as some bureaucrats and businessmen, in various cities

The Hindu

Gujarat riot victim 'numb' after rapists freed from prison

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.

Radio France Internationale

The injustice of exceptionalism

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

The Hindu

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

Muslim woman raped by Hindu mob shocked by release of 11 jailed men

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

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India will meet same fate as Pakistan if BJP tries to turn country into 'Hindu Rashtra': Gehlot

Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot said the Gujarat BJP has given "horse trading model" to the country

The Hindu

‘Are you not ashamed of such politics?’ Rahul attacks PM on BJP’s ‘support’ to rape accused

Mr. Gandhi and his Congress party have been attacking the BJP and the prime minister for releasing the rapists in the Bilkis Bano case by granting them remission.

Al Jazeera

Bilkis Bano condemns release of her convicted rapists in India

‘Give me back my right to live without fear and in peace,’ says Bano after BJP-ruled Gujarat state releases 11 convicts.

Bangkok Post

Indian gang-rape victim 'numb' after attackers freed

NEW DELHI: A Muslim woman who was gang-raped as 14 people were murdered during one of post-independence India’s worst religious riots has said she is “numb” after her attackers were released early from prison.

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Gang-raped Indian woman 'numb' after attackers released

Ahmedabad (India) (AFP) - A Muslim woman who was gang-raped as 14 other people were murdered during one of post-independence India's worst religious riots has said she is "numb" after her attackers were released early from prison.

WEKU

Release of men jailed in gang rape stirs protests in India

Dozens of women protested against the release of the men in the capital, New Delhi on Thursday.

The Independent UK

Indian woman condemns release of her convicted rapists

A Muslim woman who was gang raped while pregnant during India’s devastating 2002 religious riots has appealed to the government to rescind its decision to free 11 men who had been jailed for life for committing the crime, after they were released on suspended sentences

The Hindu

‘As a woman, I feel Bilkis Bano’s pain,’ says TRS leader Kavitha

The TRS MLC wants the Supreme Court to intervene in the case and also the Gujarat government to rescind the release order.

The Hindu

Two former Gujarat Congress leaders join BJP ahead of Assembly polls

State BJP chief C.R. Paatil welcomed Naresh Raval and former Raju Parmar into the party by offering them saffron scarves and caps.

Newslaundry

‘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.

The Hindu

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