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Bano, now in her forties, was 5 months pregnant when she was brutally gang-raped in the course of the 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat state.
India’s Supreme Court docket has quashed the remission given to 11 Hindu males who had been jailed for all times for the gang rape of Bilkis Bano and murdering her family members throughout anti-Muslim riots within the western state of Gujarat in 2002.
The highest court docket on Monday directed the 11 males to give up to jail authorities inside two weeks. “Their plea for protection of their liberty is rejected,” it mentioned.
Bilkis Bano, now in her forties, was 5 months pregnant when she was brutally gang-raped in the course of the violence, which noticed almost 2,000 folks, most of them Muslims, killed in among the worst spiritual riots India has skilled.
Seven of her family members had been killed within the riots, together with her three-year previous daughter, whose head was smashed on the bottom by the perpetrators in Gujarat’s Dahod district.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was Gujarat’s chief minister on the time and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) nonetheless guidelines the state.
The boys, convicted in early 2008, had been ordered freed by the Gujarat authorities in August 2022 after the jail they had been being held in really helpful their launch contemplating the time that they had served and their good behaviour.
Their launch drew condemnation from the sufferer’s husband, attorneys, and politicians. Native media reported that a number of petitions had been filed within the Supreme Court docket difficult the remission, together with one by Bano herself.
In its verdict on Monday, the court docket held that Gujarat didn’t have the authority to scale back the sentence meted out because the trial of the case was moved to the monetary capital Mumbai.
The Supreme Court docket mentioned the Gujarat authorities was not competent to cross the remission orders of the convicts.
There was no fast response to the decision from the 11 males and the Gujarat authorities.