New Delhi: Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Monday shared an image on Twitter claiming that one of many 11 convicts within the Bilkis Bano gangrape and homicide case was current at a authorities occasion with two Bharatiya Janata Party leaders in Gujarat. The convicted rapist was allegedly attending the launch of a water provide scheme with Dahod BJP MP Jasvantsinh Bhabhor and his brother, Limkheda MLA Sailesh Bhabhor. Moitra criticized the ruling BJP authorities and referred to as for the imprisonment of the convicts, urging individuals to vote out the celebration that helps such a “travesty of justice.”
Bilkis Bano’s Rapist Shares Stage With Gujarat’s BJP MP, MLA.
I need to see these monsters again in jail & the important thing thrown away. And I need this satanic authorities that applauds this travesty of justice voted out. I need India to reclaim her ethical compass. pic.twitter.com/noaoz1c7ZW
— Mahua Moitra (@MahuaMoitra) March 26, 2023
The 11 males have been sentenced to life imprisonment in 2008 for gangraping a five-month pregnant Bilkis Bano, who was 21 years previous on the time, and murdering seven members of her household, together with her three-year-old daughter in the course of the Gujarat riots that adopted the assault on Sabarmati Express.
Last yr, the convicts have been launched prematurely on Independence Day underneath the state authorities’s outdated remission coverage of 1992. This determination has been challenged within the Supreme Court, and the case will probably be heard on Monday (March 27) by a brand new bench comprising justices KM Joseph and BV Nagarathna. A sequence of petitions have been filed towards the discharge of the rapists within the 2002 case. TMC MP Mahua Moitra is among the petitioners.
In response to the controversy, Jasvantsinh Bhabhor shared photos from the federal government program and wrote, “At Limkheda taluka of Dahod district, Kadana dam bulk pipeline-based Limkheda group water supply scheme under the estimated amount of 101.89 crore works was laid. In which 43 villages of Limkheda taluka, 18 villages of Singhwad taluka, and 3 villages of Jhalod taluka will benefit from this scheme.”Â
Bilkis Bano was gang-raped and her three-year-old daughter was among the many seven members of the family who have been killed. The case was handed over to the CBI for investigation and the trial was moved to a Maharashtra courtroom by the Supreme Court. On January 21, 2008, a particular CBI courtroom in Mumbai sentenced 11 males to life imprisonment for the crimes of gang-rape and homicide.
The conviction was later upheld by each the Bombay High Court and the Supreme Court. However, the Gujarat authorities launched the 11 males from the Godhra sub-jail on August 15 of the earlier yr on account of their remission coverage, after having served over 15 years in jail.
