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Demand To Reverse Bilkis Bano Convicts’ Release Has Over 6,000 Signatories

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More than 6000 people have urged Supreme Court to sentence the 11 convicts who were released of the Bilkis Bano rape case.

Mumbai:  The Supreme Court has been requested Demand To Reverse Bilkis Bano Convicts’ Release Has Over 6,000 Signatoriesby more than 6,000 people, including women, grass-roots activists, and human rights advocates, to remove the sentences that were commuted for 11 men who were found guilty of rape and murder in the 2002 Bilkis Bano case.

“The remission of sentences for the 11 men convicted of gang rape and mass murder will have a chilling effect on every rape victim who is told to ‘trust the system’, ‘seek justice’, and ‘have faith’,” they said in a joint statement.

Syeda Hameed, Zafarul-Islam Khan, Roop Rekha, Devaki Jain, Uma Chakravarti, Subhashini Ali, Kavita Krishnan, Maimoona Mollah, Hasina Khan, Rachana Mudraboyina, and Shabnam Hashmi were among the activists who made the statement. Saheli Women’s Resource Center, Gamana Mahila Samuha, Bebaak Collective, All India Progressive Women’s Association, Uttarakhand Mahila Manch, Forum Against Oppression of Women, Pragatisheel Mahila Manch, Parcham Collective, Jagrit Adivasi Dalit Sangathan, Amoomat Society, WomComMatters, Center for Struggling Women, and Sahiyar are a few of the civil rights organisations.

“We demand that women’s faith in justice be restored. We demand the remission of sentences for these 11 convicts be immediately revoked and they be sent back to prison to serve the remainder of their life terms,” the statement said.

The community demanded that the remission be ended because the early release of these murderers and rapists only served to increase the impunity of all males who rape women and commit other violent crimes.
On August 15, eleven life-sentenced convicts were released from Godhra Sub-Jail after the Gujarat government approved their release under its policy of pardoning. They’d spent more than 15 years behind bars.

On January 21, 2008, an extra-ordinary Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Mumbai sentenced 11 people to life in jail on accusations of gang rape and the murder of seven Bilkis Bano family members. The Bombay High Court later upheld their conviction.

When Bilkis Bano was gang-raped while attempting to escape the rioting that had broken out following the fire of the Godhra train, she was 21 years old and five months pregnant. Her 3-year-old daughter was one of those killed.

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CBI Raids AAP Minister Manish Sisodia Over Delhi Liquor Policy

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The probe agency has filed an FIR and is investigating allegations of corruption in the new Delhi Excise Policy launched by the AAP government in November.

 

Mumbai: CBI raided 21 places in Delhi-NCR, including the house of Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and the premises of the then Delhi Excise Commissioner Arava Gopi Krishna. The raid is linked to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government’s controversial liquor policy that was scrapped last month.

The probe agency has filed an FIR and is investigating allegations of corruption in the new Delhi Excise Policy launched by the AAP government in November, under which liquor shop licenses were handed over to private players.

Giving information about this raid, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia tweeted in Hindi, “CBI has come. He is welcome. We are extremely honest. Making the future of millions of children. It is very unfortunate that those who do good work in our country are harassed like this. That is why our country has not yet become number-1.”

My work cannot be stopped for good education in the country

He said in another tweet, “These people are upset with the wonderful work of Delhi’s education and health. That is why the Health Minister and Education Minister of Delhi have been arrested so that the good work of education health can be stopped. There are false allegations against both of us. The truth will come out in court. We welcome CBI. Will give full cooperation in the investigation so that the truth can come out soon. Till now many cases have been filed against me but nothing has come out. Nothing will come out of it either. My work cannot be stopped for good education in the country.”

CM Arvind Kejriwal on raid:

AAP has accused the BJP of relentlessly targeting its ministers as part of its political plan to crush rivals. Mr Kejriwal said the CBI landed at Mr Sisodia’s doorstep the “day on which the Delhi education model was praised and Manish Sisodia’s picture was printed on the front page of America’s largest newspaper NYT.”

Delhi Chief Minister and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, who had predicted that Mr Sisodia would be targeted by probe agencies, tweeted: “Welcome to CBI. Will cooperate fully. There have been many tests/raids in the past as well. Nothing came out. still nothing will come out.”

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