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Bilkis Bano’s Rapists Are “Brahmins, Have Good Sanskar”: BJP MLA


Bilkis Bano was 5 months’ pregnant when she was gangraped through the 2002 Gujarat riots.

New Delhi:

The 11 males convicted for the rape of Bilkis Bano and launched by the Gujarat authorities after 15-odd years in jail, are “Brahmins” and have “good sanskaar“, the BJP’s sitting MLA from Godhra has mentioned. Amid the countrywide outrage over the lads’s launch, CK Raulji has backed the lads, who have been feted with sweets and garlands after their launch.

CK Raulji was one of many two BJP leaders who have been a part of the Gujarat authorities panel that unanimously determined to launch the rapists. The choice was taken after one of many convicts approached the Supreme Court docket in search of remission and the matter was handed onto the state authorities.

“I do not know whether or not they dedicated any crime or not. However there needs to be intention of committing crime,” CK Raulji is heard telling the reporter from Mojo Story.

“They have been Brahmins and Brahmins are identified to have good sanskaar. It might need been somebody’s in poor health intention to nook and punish them,” added the MLA within the interview, which is circulating broadly on social media. The convicts, he added, had good conduct whereas in jail.

The rapists walked free on Independence Day, hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke of girls’s empowerment from the ramparts of the Crimson Fort. Shortly after, movies exhibiting their heat welcome by a right-wing group emerged.

In face of a barrage of criticism, the Gujarat authorities defended its determination, saying it thought-about the discharge plea as per a 1992 coverage, as directed by the Supreme Court docket, as a result of that was in impact on the time of the conviction in 2008.

The transfer — made in contravention with the present guidelines which bar remission for convicts of rape and homicide — has appalled many. The opposition events have been vocal towards it.

Y Satish Reddy, the social media convenor of Telangana’s ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi had tweeted the video clip,

“They’re Brahmins, Males of Good Sanskaar. Their conduct in jail was good”: BJP MLA #CKRaulji BJP now phrases rapists as ‘Males of Good Sanskar’. That is the bottom a celebration can ever stoop!” his tweet learn.

Earlier, Congress’s Rahul Gandhi tweeted saying the discharge shows the BJP’s mindset in direction of girls.  

“Unnao – labored to avoid wasting BJP MLA. Kathua – rally in favour of rapists. Hathras – the federal government in favour of rapists. Gujarat – the discharge and honour of rapists. The assist to criminals shows the petty mindset of the BJP in direction of girls. Are you not ashamed of such politics, Prime Minister ji,” his tweet learn.

Trinamool Congress’s Mahua Moitra tweeted that the nation “had higher resolve whether or not Bilkis Bano is a girl or a Muslim”.

Senior Congress chief P Chidambaram tweeted that together with CK Raulji and Suman Chauhan, “One other member (of the panel reviewing the remission attraction) was Shri Murli Mulchandani who was a key witness for the prosecution within the Godhra Prepare burning case!”

Bilkis Bano was 21 years previous and 5 months’ pregnant when she was gangraped through the 2002 Gujarat riots. Seven members of her household have been murdered, amongst them her three-year-old daughter whose head was bashed with rocks. Seven different kin, who she says have been additionally killed, have been declared “lacking”.

She spent years in hiding, continually shifting house, until the rapists have been jailed. After the discharge, she has been too shell-shocked to think about the subsequent steps, to take considered security or any authorized recourse. She has requested the Gujarat authorities to reverse its determination and “make sure that my household and I are saved secure”.

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