India frees 11 Hindu men who sexually assaulted pregnant Muslim woman, killed 7 of her family member
members in 2002
A court in India ordered the release of 11 Hindu men who gang-raped a pregnant Muslim woman in 2002 and killed seven of her family members.
The men involved in the Bilkis Bano case were freed on remission on Monday from Gujarats Godhra town jail as India celebrated the 75th anniversary of the end of British rule.
The men were previously convicted in early 2008 and given life sentences for the rape of Bano, a then-21-year-old pregnant Muslim woman, amid the Hindu-Muslim riots in 2002. She was five months pregnant at the time of her rape.
The riots in Gujarat, which were considered some of Indias worst religious unrest in modern times, led to the deaths of more than 1,000 people, many of whom were Muslims. The violence was triggered by the deaths of 59 Hindu pilgrims on board a train that caught fire. Hindu right-wing groups blamed Muslim extremists for the incident.
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