Mysore/Mysuru: Strongly condemning the Gujarat Government’s action of releasing all convicts in the Bilkis Bano rape and murder of her family members case that happened amid the 2002 Gujarat riots, social activists, led by actor Prakash Raj, under the banner of Karnataka Mahila Dourjanya Virodhi Okkoota, staged a demonstration in front of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar statue in Town Hall premises this morning.
Addressing the protesters, actor Prakash Raj said that all the 11 convicted men had been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Mumbai Court in 2008 for gang-raping Bilkis Bano and killing seven members of her family, including her three-year-old daughter during the 2002 Gujarat riots. But the BJP Government in Gujarat released all the convicts for showing ‘good conduct’, under an outdated remission policy, which is nothing but murder of justice, he said and urged the Gujarat Government to re-imprison all the convicts and make them to serve life-sentence.
