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The injustice of exceptionalism

It is the exceptionalism in granting the release of 11 individuals that lies at the core of injustice in the Bilkis Bano case

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SUCI(C), AIMSS condemn release of 11 rape convicts

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Bilkis Bano case | Past verdicts will hold Supreme Court in good stead to examine premature release of convicts

It was as recently as in April that the court had said that the State cannot exercise its remission powers arbitrarily

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Some convicts in Bilkis Bano case are 'Brahmins with good sanskaar', says Gujarat BJP MLA

"We asked the jailer and learnt that their behaviour was good in the prison...also (some of the convicts) are Brahmins. They have good 'sanskaar' (values)," BJP MLA from Godhra C.K. Raulji said

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Muslim woman raped by Hindu mob shocked by release of 11 jailed men

Gujarat frees men serving life sentences for rape, and for murder of three-year-old daughter and other relatives

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‘Are you not ashamed of such politics?’ Rahul attacks PM on BJP’s ‘support’ to rape accused

Mr. Gandhi and his Congress party have been attacking the BJP and the prime minister for releasing the rapists in the Bilkis Bano case by granting them remission.

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Bilkis Bano condemns release of her convicted rapists in India

‘Give me back my right to live without fear and in peace,’ says Bano after BJP-ruled Gujarat state releases 11 convicts.

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Indian gang-rape victim 'numb' after attackers freed

NEW DELHI: A Muslim woman who was gang-raped as 14 people were murdered during one of post-independence India’s worst religious riots has said she is “numb” after her attackers were released early from prison.

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‘As a woman, I feel Bilkis Bano’s pain,’ says TRS leader Kavitha

The TRS MLC wants the Supreme Court to intervene in the case and also the Gujarat government to rescind the release order.

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Bilkis case: Women will not feel safe by PM Narendra Modi's empty words on empowerment, says Congress MP Amee Yagnik

AHMEDABAD: Women will not feel safe by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "empty words" on their empowerment, senior Congress leader Amee Yagnik said on Wednesday targetting the Gujarat government over the premature release of 11 life-term convicts in the 2002 Bilkis Bano case.

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Bilkis Case: Rahul Gandhi says entire country seeing difference between PM Modi's words, deeds

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the release of the convicts in the Bilkis Bano case and said the entire country is seeing the difference between his words and deeds. Read more on Dynamite News:

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Bilkis Bano case | Rahul Gandhi says country can see difference between PM Modi's words and deeds

Those who raped a five-month pregnant woman and killed her three-year-old daughter were released during 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav'. What message is being given to the women of the country by those who peddle lies about 'Nari Shakti'?: Rahul Gandhi

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‘Defies logic, based on a ruler's whimsy’: Front pages and editorials on release of Bilkis Bano convicts

Yesterday, 11 convicts walked out of a jail in Godhra. All of them had been handed life sentences in 2008 for gangraping Bilkis Bano during the 2002 Gujarat riots and murdering 14 of her family members, including her three-year-old child.

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Gujarat followed old policy to release convicts in Bilkis Bano case

Present norms bar release of murder, rape convicts

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We were victims of politics, says Bilkis Bano case convict day after being freed

Bilkis Bano was 21 years old and five months pregnant when she was raped while fleeing the violence that broke out in the aftermath of the Sabarmati Express train burning incident at Godhra in 2002

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‘Does PM Modi believe in his own words on women safety?’: Congress on release of Bilkis Bano case convicts

Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said in the Bilkis Bano case, the Supreme Court had ordered the Gujarat Government to pay a compensation of ₹50 lakh to her

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Owaisi criticises PM Modi for release of Bilkis Bano rape convicts

The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president said that the convicts, who were her neighbours, had raped Bilkis Bano who was pregnant at the time

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Eleven convicts in Gujarat gang rape, murder cases freed in India

Convicts in the Bilkis Bano case are freed after state government approves their application for remission of sentence.

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Bilkis Bano's family surprised on release of 11 life term convicts in case of her gang rape and kin murder

Ahmedabad The husband of Bilkis Bano on August 16 said they were surprised after coming to know from

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Bilkis Bano gang rape case: All 11 life imprisonment convicts released under Gujarat government's remission policy

GODHRA: All the eleven convicts sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2002 post-Godhra Bilkis Bano gang rape case on Monday walked out of the Godhra sub-jail after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy, an official said. A special CBI court in Mumbai on January 21, 2008,…

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