"Send Bilkis Bano Convicts Back To Jail": Telangana Leader Writes To Chief Justice
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"To imagine Bilkis Bano seeing her rapists walking free... then being garlanded and celebrated for release, must have shattered her," K Kavita writes
Asking the Supreme Court to intervene to reverse the release of convicts in the Bilkis Bano rape case from Gujarat, Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) leader Kalvakuntla Kavitha has written to Chief Justice of India NV Ramana.
The convicts, sent to life imprisonment in 2008 for the gangrape of Bilkis Bano and the murder of seven of her family during the 2002 Gujarat riots, walked out of jail this August 15.
Ms Bano was 21 years old and pregnant at the time, and those murdered included her three-year-old daughter.
“To imagine her (Bilkis Bano) seeing her rapists walking free with impunity, then being garlanded and celebrated for release, must have shattered her,” K Kavita, a member of Telangana's Legislative Council, wrote.
