Bilkis Bano
- India
Bilkis Bano case: SC agrees to hear fresh plea against release of 11 convicts
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear the plea of a women’s organisation seeking directions to revoke the remission granted to 11 convicts, who had gang-raped Bilkis Bano and…
- India
Gujarat polls: Manish Sisodia avoids question over Bilkis Bano case
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) senior leader and Delhi’s deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia avoided a question on the recent development in the Bilkis Bano case. On being asked why AAP is silent…
- India
Bilkis Bano Case convict is accused of outraging woman’s modesty in 2020
One of the convicts of the Bilkis Bano Case Mitesh Chimanlal Bhatt was booked for outraging a woman’s modesty while out of parole in June 2020. As per the annexure of the…
- India
Union Min Prahlad Joshi backs release of Bilkis Bano rape convicts
Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister and BJP leader Prahlad Joshi and newly joined Hardik Patel backed the Centre’s decision to release the 11 convicts who were found guilty in the Bilkis Bano rape…
- Bangalore
Bilkis Bano case: Siddaramiah seeks Shah’s resignation for freeing convicts
Bengaluru: Former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah demanded Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s resignation, saying his office ordered release of the convicts in the Bilkis Bano case. In a series of tweets, the Congress…
- India
5 BJP members of 10 on advisory board that released Bilkis Bano convicts
Five out of the ten members who were part of the advisory board of the Gujarat remission policy that resulted in the release of 11 convicts guilty of rape and murder of…
- India
Bilkis Bano case convicts release with eye on elections: Congress
New Delhi: Congress on Tuesday questioned the Union government for the preferential treatment given to the Bilkis Bano case convicts, alleging that it has been done for elections. Addressing a press conference,…
- India
Gujarat govt reply in Bilkis Bano case ‘very bulky’, says SC
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that Gujarat government’s response to petitions challenging the remission granted to 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case is “very bulky”, where, instead of…
- India
For BJP, no crime too grave if victims are Muslim: Owaisi on release of Bilkis Bano convicts
Hyderabad: Reacting to the latest development in the Bilkis Bano case wherein 11 convicted of mass murder and rape in the 2002 Gujarat riots were set free on August 15 by the…
- India
Bilkis Bano case: Talk of respect for women from Red Fort but ‘support’ for rapists, says Rahul to Modi
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the remission to the convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang rape case, alleging that while there was talk…
- India
‘Doubtful if procedure was followed for remission’, says judge who sentenced Bilkis Bano rapists
On August 15 this year, as the nation pledged to create an environment of respect and awareness towards women’s safety, 11 men convicted in the gruesome Godhra riots of 2002 were set…
- Telangana
Bilkis Bano rape convicts release ‘new low’ for BJP: KTR
Hyderabad: Telangana IT, Industries minister KT Rama Rao (KTR) slammed the BJP-led government at the Centre on Tuesday for releasing Bilkis Bano’s rapists for ‘political gains.; He called it a ‘new low’…
- India
Bilkis Bano case: SC to hear pleas against release of 11 convicts on Nov 29
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will hear on November 29 the pleas challenging the remission of sentence and release of 11 convicts in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gang-rape…
- India
‘Good behaviour’: Gujarat govt to SC on release of 11 convicts in Bilkis Bano case
New Delhi: The Gujarat government has told the Supreme Court that the 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case were released since they completed 14 years in prison and their behaviour was…
- India
Giving remission to Bilkis Bano case convicts is against remission policy: Faizan Azizi
Under the leadership of Dr.Faizan Azizi a delegation from the various sections of society met with Bhagat Singh Khoshyari, hon’ble Governor of Maharashtra on 27 September 2022. Hazrat Sayyed Khalid Ashrafi President…
