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Indian Supreme Court orders 11 men convicted for murder and gang rape to return to jail after early release | CNN
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/08/india/bilkis-bano-supreme-court-india-rape-intl-hnk/index.html
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India’s top court on Monday reversed a state government’s decision to release 11 men convicted of gang-raping a pregnant Muslim woman during Hindu-Muslim riots in 2002, and ordered for them to be sent back to jail.
The men were part of a Hindu mob sentenced to life in prison for the gang rape of Bilkis Bano, who was 21 years old and pregnant at the time.
They were released in August 2022 after serving 14 years of their sentence following a decision made by an advisory panel set up by the Gujarat state government, which is led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The Gujarat government was “lacking in competency” to pass the remission orders as the trial and sentencing happened in Maharashtra state, the court ruled.
The move was celebrated by supporters of Bano, who had decried the men’s release as an attack not only on Muslims but women’s rights in a country where government data shows a woman is raped every 17 minutes.
But in August 2022, the state government granted them remission under a provision in India’s Code of Criminal Procedure that allows prisoners to be freed once they serve 14 years.
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