One of the 11 convicts within the Bilkis Bano gangrape case launched prematurely final 12 months was seen sharing the stage on Sunday with a BJP MP and an MLA at a authorities programme in Gujarat. He shared the stage with BJP MP Jaswant Bhabhor and his MLA brother Shailesh Bhabhor in Gujarat’s Dahod.
When questioned on the incident on Saturday, the convict Shailesh Bhatt stated he went there for ‘puja’ ritual however refused to elaborate. Bhatt was seen in a photograph shared by Shailesh Bhabhor on his Twitter account, with a caption asserting the inspiration laying programme for the Kadana dam bulk pipeline challenge price roughly Rs 101.89 crore.
“I went there for puja,” Bhatt stated. He was additionally seen standing subsequent to Jaswant Bhabhor, a former Union minister of state for tribal affairs, in a photograph shared by the Dahod district data division. Following their conviction by a particular CBI courtroom in Mumbai in 2008 on the cost of gang rape and homicide of seven members of Bilkis Bano’s household, Bhatt and 10 others have been serving a life sentence within the Godhra sub-jail in Panchmahal district of Gujarat.
All 11 convicts walked out of the sub-jail on August 15, 2022, after the incarceration of 15 years because the Gujarat authorities allowed their untimely launch beneath its remission coverage, inflicting an outcry. Their launch was challenged within the Supreme Court, which on March 22 directed the matter for pressing itemizing and constituted a brand new bench to listen to the bunch of pleas. The matter will come up for listening to on Monday.
The case dates again to 2002 when the communal violence erupted in Gujarat following the burning of a Sabarmati Express coach that killed 59 ‘karsevaks ‘on February 27 that 12 months. Bilkis Bano, who was five-month pregnant at that point and 21 years outdated, had fled her village with her toddler daughter and 15 others. On March 3, they took shelter in a discipline when a mob of 20-30 individuals armed with sickles, swords and sticks attacked them. Bilkis Bano was gang raped and 7 members of her household have been killed.
Mahua Moitra reacts
Meanwhile, Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra shared an image of Bilkis Bano’s rapist sharing a stage with the BJP leaders on Twitter and stated that she needs to see ‘these monsters again in jail’. She added, “I want this satanic government that applauds this travesty of justice voted out. I want India to reclaim her moral compass.”
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