‘Shameful’: Sharad Pawar on launch of life-term convicts in Bilkis Bano case
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THANE: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Monday termed “shameful” the discharge of the 11 life-term convicts within the Bilkis Bano case below the Gujarat authorities’s remission coverage.
Speaking to reporters in Thane in Maharashtra, Pawar stated the discharge of the convicts is opposite to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day tackle whereby he had appealed to folks to respect ladies.
“Atrocities on women are on the rise in the country. When the courts have awarded them imprisonment till death such a decision by the Gujarat government to release the convicts in the Bilkis case was a shameful one,” he stated.
Pawar additionally instructed that activist Teesta Setalvad’s arrest was flawed.
“What the Gujarat government is doing in the Teesta Setalvad case is totally wrong,” he stated.
Setalvad was arrested by the Gujarat Police in June for allegedly submitting false proof within the 2002 Gujarat riots case.
The 11 males sentenced to life imprisonment in reference to the gang rape of Bilkis Bano throughout the 2002 Gujarat communal riots and the homicide of seven members of her household walked out of the Godhra sub-jail on August 15 after the Gujarat authorities allowed their launch below its remission coverage.
They had served greater than 15 years in jail.
The Supreme Court had directed the Gujarat authorities to look into the problem of remission of the sentence of one of many convicts.
A particular Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court docket in Mumbai on January 21, 2008, sentenced the 11 accused to life imprisonment.
Their conviction was later upheld by the Bombay High Court.
On March 3, 2002, Bilkis Bano’s household was attacked by a mob at Randhikpur village in Limkheda taluka of Dahod district in Gujarat.
Bilkis, who was 5 months pregnant at the moment, was gang-raped and 7 members of her household have been killed.
THANE: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Monday termed “shameful” the discharge of the 11 life-term convicts within the Bilkis Bano case below the Gujarat authorities’s remission coverage.
Speaking to reporters in Thane in Maharashtra, Pawar stated the discharge of the convicts is opposite to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day tackle whereby he had appealed to folks to respect ladies.
“Atrocities on women are on the rise in the country. When the courts have awarded them imprisonment till death such a decision by the Gujarat government to release the convicts in the Bilkis case was a shameful one,” he stated.
Pawar additionally instructed that activist Teesta Setalvad’s arrest was flawed.
“What the Gujarat government is doing in the Teesta Setalvad case is totally wrong,” he stated.
Setalvad was arrested by the Gujarat Police in June for allegedly submitting false proof within the 2002 Gujarat riots case.
The 11 males sentenced to life imprisonment in reference to the gang rape of Bilkis Bano throughout the 2002 Gujarat communal riots and the homicide of seven members of her household walked out of the Godhra sub-jail on August 15 after the Gujarat authorities allowed their launch below its remission coverage.
They had served greater than 15 years in jail.
The Supreme Court had directed the Gujarat authorities to look into the problem of remission of the sentence of one of many convicts.
A particular Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court docket in Mumbai on January 21, 2008, sentenced the 11 accused to life imprisonment.
Their conviction was later upheld by the Bombay High Court.
On March 3, 2002, Bilkis Bano’s household was attacked by a mob at Randhikpur village in Limkheda taluka of Dahod district in Gujarat.
Bilkis, who was 5 months pregnant at the moment, was gang-raped and 7 members of her household have been killed.
