In the year 2002, Bilkis Bano was brutally raped and seven members were killed. Recently 11 accused in the case were released after 15 years of Imprisonment, that not go well with the people. Javed Akhtar criticizes the decision.
Javed Akhtar 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,”
What was the incident about
Bilkis Bano's family was attacked by a mob at Randhikpur village in Limkheda taluka of Dahod district on March 3, 2002. Bilkis, who was five months pregnant at the time, was gang raped and seven members of her family were killed during the riots triggered by the Godhra train burning incident.
The Gujarat government released the 11 convicts after the Supreme Court directed it to consider their plea for relief under the state's 1992 remission policy. A special CBI court in Mumbai had on January 21, 2008, sentenced to life imprisonment all the 11 accused in the case for the murder of seven family members of Bilkis Bano, a riots survivor, and her gang rape. These convicts served more than 15 years in prison after which one of them approached the Supreme Court with a plea for his premature release. The apex court had directed the Gujarat government to look into the issue of remission of his sentence as per its 1992 policy on the basis of the date of his conviction. Thereafter, the government formed a committee that took the decision to allow the release of all the convicts, thus all the convicts were released but various people are not happy with this decision.
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