New Delhi: Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking stronger laws and policies to restrict the remission and paroles of rape convicts. She cited the Bilkis Bano rape case and Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet
New Delhi: The Supreme Court agreed on Friday, October 21, to hear a fresh plea moved by a women’s organisation, challenging the remission of sentence and the release of convicts who in 2002 gang-raped Bilkis Bano and murdered 14 people, some of whom were her
New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Home Affairs had approved the premature release of 11 convicts facing life imprisonment in the Bilkis Bano gangrape-cum-murder case, the Gujarat told the Supreme Court. The disclosure came as part of an over-400-page affidavit submitted by the state in response
New Delhi: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that the Centre’s approval to release 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case showed the difference between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s words and actions on respect for women. The Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in Gujarat told the
`New Delhi: Over 400 writers, artists and other prominent citizens have said that they are “shocked beyond belief” over the release of 11 convicts guilty of the brutal gangrape of Bilkis Bano and the murder of 14 members of her extended family, including her three-year-old
New Delhi: The prime minister says ‘save daughters’ but his party works to ‘save rapists’, Rahul Gandhi tweeted, in a scathing attack on the Centre over the murder of 19-year-old Ankita Bhandari in Uttarakhand and the release of convicted rapists of Bilkis Bano. “The PM says:
New Delhi: The Supreme Court said it will hear after three weeks the pleas challenging the remission of sentence and release of 11 convicts in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gang-rape case and murder of her seven family members during the Gujarat riots. The apex court asked
New York: The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) strongly condemned the “unjustified” release of 11 men who had been convicted of raping Bilkis Bano during the 2002 Gujarat riots and killing 14 members of her family. USCIRF vice chair Abraham Cooper said in
Washington D.C.: International Society for Peace and Justice (ISPJ), a rights body in United States of America (USA) has written an open letter to Antony J. Blinken, the Secretary of State on the early release of 11 men convicted of gang rape of a Muslim
New Delhi: Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi 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. The party asked Modi as well as Home