India’s Supreme Court has quashed the remission given to 11 Hindu males who had been jailed for all times for the gang rape of a pregnant lady and murdering her relations throughout anti-Muslim riots within the western state of Gujarat in 2002.

Bilkis Bano, now in her forties, was 5 months pregnant when she was brutally gang-raped in the course of the violence, which noticed almost 2,000 folks, most of them Muslims, killed in among the worst spiritual riots India has skilled.

Seven of her relations, together with her three-year outdated daughter, had been killed within the riots.

The high courtroom on Monday mentioned the 11 convicted males who had been launched early should return to jail.

“Their plea for protection of their liberty is rejected,” the courtroom mentioned.

More to return…