New incriminating facts continue to emerge in the August 15 premature release of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case and mass murder in the 2002 Gujarat violence almost every day. The latest bit is that five of the 10-member remission committee are associated with the BJP, including two sitting MLAs.
Over 6,000 citizens, including grassroot workers and women and human rights activists, have urged the Supreme Court to revoke the remission of sentences for 11 men convicted of rape and murder in the 2002 Bilkis Bano case.
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday said hijab is not part of the essential religious practice in Islamic faith and upheld the ban against the headscarf in educational institutions in the state by dismissing pleas from Muslim girls, seeking nod to wear hijab in classrooms.
Hundreds of feminists, democratic groups, academicians, lawyers and activists on Thursday issued an open letter condemning the row over girls wearing hijab in colleges in Karnataka, saying it has become the "latest pretext to impose apartheid on and attack Muslim women". It said the video from Mandya in Karnataka of a saffron-stole-wearing mob of men surrounding a