CK Raulji, who had described the Bilkis Bano case convicts as Brahmin men with good sanskar, or values, has been fielded by the Bharatiya Janata Party as its candidate from the Godhra constituency for the Gujarat Assembly polls, reported NDTV on Friday.
Bilkis Bano was gangraped on March 3, 2002, during the riots in Gujarat. She was 19 and pregnant at the time. Fourteen members of her family, including her three-year-old daughter, were murdered by the rioters near Ahmedabad. One of the men snatched the girl from her mother’s arms and smashed her head on a rock.
On August 15, all 11 men who were sentenced to life imprisonment in the Bilkis Bano gangrape and murder case were released from a Godhra jail after the Gujarat government approved their application under its remission policy.
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