Bilkis Bano Vindicated!
On 8 January 2024, Bilkis Bano stood vindicated! Her relentless quest for truth and justice met with triumph, as the Supreme Court of India, quashed the Gujarat Government's decision to…
Bilkis Bano case
NFIW welcomes the landmark judgment of the Honorable Supreme Court of India in the Bilkis Bano case
New Delhi, January 9, 2024: The National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) welcomes the landmark judgment of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in the ‘Bilkis Bano case’, striking down…
Bilkis Bano’s Rapists To Return To Jail
The Supreme Court today cancelled the early release of the 11 men convicted of raping Bilkis Bano and killing her family during the 2002 Gujarat riots. The convicts will return…
Justice to Bilkis Bano: Send 11 convicts back to Jail
Bilkis Bano, then 19 years old and pregnant, was gangraped in the 2002 infamous communal violence of Gujarat. 14 of her family members were also killed including a 3 years…
Difference between release of Rajiv Gandhi assassination convicts and Bilkis Bano case convicts
Supreme Court has released six convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. This was bound to happen as earlier A.G. Perarivalan was released in the same case, setting a precedent.…
Amit Shah Should Resign
It turns out that the Home Ministry actually gave permission for remission of sentence of 11 rape and murder convicts in the case of Bilkis Bano in Gujarat. It flies…
A struggle for dignity of women
A padyatra (foot march) was to be taken out between 26 September and 4 October, 2022 from Randhikpur village in Dahod district of Gujarat to Ahmedabad to apologise to Bilkis…
Apologising to Bilkis Bano
It is a matter of shame for us as a society that Bilkis Bano's rapists have been released by a District level committee of Gujarat Government. Some people in the…
#Let’sRaiseHell
On the day India was born eleven demons were let loose. A great celebration ensued Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! India won the match again! The match is always fixed. A man…
Demonstration in Mumbai condemning release of murderers of family of Bilkees Banoo
A militant demonstration was held at Dadar Railway Station (East) on August 23rd, besides Hanuman Mandir, Dadar (East), Mumbai, attended by over 300 activists which is mainly consisted of women.…
Communal Virus & Indian Politicking!
The nature of communal virus plaguing India even in this era displays political “strategies” still being deliberately manufactured and propagated to spread communalism at cost of secularism. The saving grace…
Bilkis in Hindu Rashtra !
Whether Remission of Sentences of her Perpetrators offers a template for Victims / Survivors How Justice Would End for them now onwards ? Who gets 'Amrit' , who gets…
PUCL condemns the remission of the sentence of the 11 convicts in the Bilkis case as arbitrary, unfair and dangerous for Indian democracy
Peoples Union for Civil Liberties condemns the release on remission of the 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case on August 15, 2022. 11 convicts charged with charges of gang…
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