"If You Really Respect Women...": Telangana Leader To PM Modi On Bilkis Bano Convicts' Release

Echoing other Opposition parties and human rights activists, KTR called the release "nauseating to put it mildly" and asked the PM to intervene

Citing the release of 11 convicts in Gujarat's Bilkis Bano case, Telangana minister KT Rama Rao ('KTR') today asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi if he "really meant" what he spoke about "respecting women" in his Independence Day speech. If he did mean it, said KTR in his tweet, "I urge you to intervene and rescind the Gujarat government remission order".  Sir, I also urge you to make necessary amendments to the Indian Penal Code (IPC) & The Code of Criminal Procedure (CRPC) suitably so that no Rapist can get a bail through judiciaryStrong legislations are the only way to ensure Judiciary can deliver swiftly & perform at its best "She Is In Acute Shock": Bilkis Bano's Lawyer After Release Of 11 Rapists https://t.co/b6eOBlTuYNNDTV's Mariyam Alavi reports pic.twitter.com/HG7hD6sJwB

Echoing other Opposition parties and human rights activists, KTR called the release "nauseating to put it mildly" and alleged that it's against an order of the Union Home Ministry. 

The "order" here implies the recent special release guidelines issued by the Centre, which said rapists should not be granted such relief. But the Gujarat government has said it wasn't technically bound by those guidelines as the Supreme Court asked it to consider the release plea in this case under its 1992 policy.