Bilkis Bano
- India
Bilkis Bano case: SC issues notice to Gujarat govt on release of convicts
The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a notice to the Gujarat government, seeking its response to a plea challenging the state’s decision of granting remission to 11 convicts who gang-raped Bilkis Bano…
- India
Give justice to Bilkis Bano, says Priyanka Gandhi
New Delhi: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday demanded justice for Gujarat riots survivor Bilkis Bano and said the government has made its stand clear with its silence on the release…
- India
Bilkis Bano matter, Pegasus panel report, PMLA verdict review in SC on Thursday
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Thursday hear a joint petition filed by former MP Subhashini Ali, journalist Revati Laul, and Prof. Roop Rekha Verma against the Gujarat government’s decision to…
- India
Bigger platform of secular forces needed to counter challenges posed by BJP: Yechury
Agartala: CPI(M) general secretary Sitram Yechury on Wednesday stressed the need for forming a bigger platform of secular forces to counter the challenges posed by the saffron camp. Attempts are being made…
- India
Felicitating convicts in Bilkis Bano case was in `absolute bad taste’: judge who presided over trial
Mumbai: Granting remission of sentence is within the government’s powers but the `felicitation’ of the convicts in the Bilkis Bano case by some people was distasteful, the judge who convicted them 14…
- India
Bilkis Bano case: Fadnavis calls felicitation of convicts ‘wrong’
Mumbai: The convicts in the 2002 Bilkis Bano case of Gujarat were released following a Supreme Court order, but it was wrong if a person accused of a crime is “felicitated” and…
- India
Bilkis Bano case: Mahua Moitra moves SC against convicts’ release
Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra moved the Supreme Court of India on Tuesday challenging the BJP-led Gujarat government’s decision to release the 11 convicts guilty of gang raping Bano and mass murdering…
- India
Bilkis Bano case: SC agrees to examine plea against remission of convicts
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to examine a plea challenging the remission granted to the 11 who were convicted for the rape and murder in the 2002 Bilkis Bano…
- India
Release of convicts has set a bad precedent: Justice UD Salvi
Following the release of 11 people convicted for the rape of Bilkis Bano and the murder of several individuals (including killing Bilkis’s three-year-old daughter) in the 2002 Gujarat riots, Justice UD Salvi…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Revoke release of Bilkis Bano’s rapists, demand activists
Hyderabad: “With the release of Bilkis Bano’s rapists on Independence Day, it is clear that the Hindu fanatics have the backing of the current government,” said activist Khalida Parveen on Saturday during…
- Telangana
Telangana IAS officer’s comments on Bilkis Bano case trigger row
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s secretary and senior IAS officer Smita Sabharwal’s tweets on the release of 11 convicts in Bilkis Bano rape case in Gujarat has triggered a row…
- India
CPI (Maoists) condemn release of life convicts in Bilkis Bano’s case
The CPI (Maoist) condemned the release of the 11 convicts who were involved in the Gujarat Riots of 2002 and were convicted for the rape of Bilkis Bano and the gruesome murder…
- India
Bilkis case: 3 MLAs request President to revoke decision to release convicts
Ahmedabad: Three Gujarat Congress MLAs have written to President Droupadi Murmu seeking her direction to the state government to withdraw its “shameful decision” to release the 11 convicts serving a life sentence…
- Telangana
Telangana MLC Kavitha asks CJI to undo release of Bilkis Bano’s rapists
Hyderabad: TRS MLC Kalvakuntla Kavitha penned a letter to Chief Justice of India NV Ramana on Friday, imploring the Supreme Court to intervene in the matter of the release of the 11…
- Telangana
Jubilee hills gang rape: KTR defends Telangana govt’s action
Hyderabad: Telangana Information Technology (IT) minister KT Rama Rao (KTR) on Friday said that the government’s reaction to the Jubilee Hills minor gang rape case was swift and that the high court…
