The rally was organised to apologise to Bilkis Bano, after Gujarat govt on August 15 this year released 11 convicts in her case under its remission policy
Those detained were Magsaysay award winner Sandeep Pandey, Noorjahan Diwan, Tanushree, Nitesh Gangaramani, Kausar Ali, T. Gopal Krishna and Hanif Kalandar. Panchmahal district police called the detention "preventive action."
The Gujarat police, on Monday, foiled an attempted march by several activists who had planned to walk “in solidarity with Bilkis Bano” from Randhikpur to Ahmedabad. Bano was gangraped, and seven of her family members were killed, in 2002 in the post-Godhra riots violence. The 180-km march, planned against the Gujarat government remitting the life sentence of 11 of the convicts