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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
TopicBilkis Bano

Topic: Bilkis Bano

‘Nothing wrong, as per law,’ says Union minister on premature release of Bilkis Bano convicts

SC will hear on 29 November the petition challenging remission of sentence of 11 men who gang-raped Bano and killed 7 members of her family during 2002 Gujarat riots.

‘PM has only betrayed women,’ Rahul slams Modi over remission in Bilkis Bano case

His reaction came after the Gujarat government told the SC that it obtained 'suitable orders' from the Centre for granting remission to the convicts in the 2002 gang-rape case.

Modi govt approved premature release of 11 convicts in Bilkis Bano case, Gujarat tells SC

The Gujarat govt also called the petition filed against the granting of remission to the convicts 'abuse of PIL jurisdiction', in an over-400-page affidavit submitted in the apex court Monday.

Personal sense of justice betrayed, writes BJP’s Shazia Ilmi on release of Bilkis Bano convicts

Ilmi wrote it is 'important to distinguish between' Gujarat government and PMO, adding that it was the VHP which felicitated the convicts and not the BJP.

Bilkis Bano case shows India does not value women as equal citizens

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‘Modi’s praise, his tears’: Urdu press says time will tell if BJP had role in Azad’s ‘dramatic’ exit

ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

‘Did Gujarat govt think of Bilkis’s security?’ — Urdu press spotlight remains on rapists’ release

ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

‘Make convicts party in plea,’ says CJI on petition challenging remission in Bilkis Bano case

A 3-judge bench led by CJI NV Ramana observed that the question is 'whether the convicts could have been granted remission & if it was within parameters of law'.

‘I bow my head in shame, hang Bilkis convicts’ — BJP’s ex-CM Shanta Kumar slams Gujarat govt

BJP veteran & former Union minister questions how Gujarat government released the rape and murder convicts, and says he'll speak to PM Modi to seek his intervention.

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Bads of Bollywood can’t get more brazenly nepo. The joke’s on us

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Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

India takes a relook at Russian Su-57, but not for its stealth. Here’s why

India exited the Indo-Russian FGFA programme in 2018. But now it might procure at least 2 squadrons of Su-57 aircraft from Russia and evaluate Russian proposal to manufacture them in India.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.