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Bilkis Bano case: Is right to seek remission a fundamental right? Supreme Court asks convicts

A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan today concluded hearing arguments of the convicts in the batch of pleas challenging the premature release of 11 men who had gang-raped Bilkis Bano and brutally massacred her family members during the 2002 Gujarat carnage. Bilkis Bano has filed a petition Supreme Court against the remission...

One India, Two Daughters Nirbhaya And Bilkis Bano; Two Different Treatments Because Religion Lies In Name…
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One India, Two Daughters Nirbhaya And Bilkis Bano; Two Different Treatments Because Religion Lies In Name…

On 15 August 2022, as India was celebrating 75 years of Independence, news came that the Gujarat government approved the release of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang rape and murder case during the Muslim genocide in 2002. It shocked the nation, more than that disappointed the Indian Muslims because this was not something...