One of the renowned faces in Bollywood Shabana Azmi opened up on the Bilkis Banu Rape case after the release of 11 convict. Shabana said, “I have no words (for Bilkis Bano) except that I am deeply ashamed. I have no other words. This woman has had such a huge tragedy. And yet she didn't lose courage. She fought all the way. She got these people convicted and, like her husband says, just when she's about to bring her life together, this great travesty of justice happens.

The actress further said, “Shouldn't we be shouting from the rooftops so that justice is done to this person? And the women who are feeling unsafe in this country, women who face the threat of rape every day – shouldn't they get some sense of security?” Shabana also wiped her eyes as she spoke about Bilkis.

The actress further said, “Takes me completely by surprise because when this happened I just expected there would be such an outpouring of outrage. I waited two days, three days, and there was such little visibility in the media, in any kind of discussion. One day I was sitting with some people...the Bilkis Bano case was talked about. They said, 'But what's the big deal? They have already served the sentence, ab kya shor machana (why create a fuss now)?' They weren't even fully cognizant of what had happened, they weren't even aware that these 11 convicts had been released. I was just stunned that this could happen. Even now I think there is not enough understanding of the injustice and horror of what has happened."

Earlier Shabana’s husband Javed Akhtar also twitted about this case and wrote, “Those who raped a 5-month pregnant woman after killing 7 of her family including her 3-year-old daughter were set free from the jail offered sweets and were garlanded. Don’t hide behind what about. Think !! Something is seriously going wrong with our society.”

On March 3, 2002, Bilkis Bano’s family was reportedly attacked by a mob at Randhikpur village in Limkheda taluka of Dahod district in Gujarat. Bilkis, who was five months pregnant at that time, was gang raped and seven members of her family were killed. Recently the Supreme Court had directed the Gujarat government to look into the issue of remission of the sentence of one of the convicts. A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Mumbai on January 21, 2008, sentenced the 11 accused to life imprisonment. Their conviction was later upheld by the Bombay High Court.  They were released after They served more than 15 years in jail.

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