All 11 life imprisonment convicts in Bilkis Bano gang-rape case were freed from the Godhra sub-jail under the Gujarat government's remission policy, according to senior officials. Bilkis, a 21 year old was gangraped and her three-year-old daughter Saleha was among 14 killed by a group of people on March 3, 2002, in Limkheda taluka of Dahod district. Bilkis was pregnant at the
The Gujarat government followed its own guidelines as per the Supreme Court’s directions in May and released the convicts under its remission policy.
All the eleven convicts sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2002 post-Godhra Bilkis Bano gang rape case on Monday were released from the Godhra sub-jail after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy, an official said
All the eleven convicts sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2002 post-Godhra Bilkis Bano gang rape case on Monday walked out of the Godhra sub-jail after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy, an official said.