Bilkis Banu Gang Rape - Indian High Court Sends 11 Hindus To Life In Jail.

Recentlu we have heard from an Indian fugitive that if he goes back to India (where TWO WARRANTS of arrest have been issued against him) then he will not be treated fairly.

And all the kaum DNA bahalol just believed what he said.  

Well here is a very high profile case in India which shows that the Indian Judiciary has acted very professionally and upholds justice. 

The prosecution, the defense and the judges are all Hindus (from their names).  

The 11 accused are also all Hindus. 

Only the victim is a Muslim girl.

The case involves 11 Hindus attacking, raping and murdering Muslims.   

In 2002 there were some serious Hindu-Muslim riots in Gujarat. In this case a whole group of 17 people (14 of whom were from one family) was almost completely wiped out. Three people survived, including a girl Bilkis Banu who was gang raped,  beaten and left for dead.

11 attackers who were held responsible were arrested and charged in 2003.

The first guilty convictions were handed down in 2008.

The 11 convicts appealed their conviction.

Yesterday the Bombay High Court upheld the conviction.

The 11 perpetrators have been sent off to life imprisonment.

6 other people, prejudiced Police and hospital doctors who had tampered with evidence were also convicted.

Here is the news :

Bilkis Bano gangrape case: Bombay High Court upholds conviction of 11 

17 people, including Bilkis Bano, attacked in Gujarat on March 3, 2002

in aftermath of Godhra train carnage

Bombay high court also set aside acquittal of 6 others for tampering evidence

Bombay high court upheld life sentences for 11 for gangraping Bilkis Bano 

during 2002 anti-Muslim violence 

convicted 6 people for tampering evidence 

one of India’s most high-profile riot cases

court  rejected Central Bureau of Investigation’s appeal to put 3 to death

Justices VK Tahilramani, Mridula Bhatkar dismissed defence argument 

that Bilkis’ testimony was “bogus” and “full of contradictions”

Bikis one of 17 people attacked by mob on March 3, 2002 in Dahod district 

height of violence in Gujarat

8 were killed, 6 missing and only 3 — Bilkis and 2 family — survived

Bilkis, then 19, was raped and left for dead by miscreants

case grabbed national headlines in 2003 

Supreme Court ordered CBI probe 

Jan 2008, special court convicted 11 men — Jaswant Nai, Govind Nai, Shailesh Bhatt, Radhyesham Shah, Bipin Chandra Joshi, Kesarbhai Vohania, Pradeep Mordhiya, Bakabhai Vohania, Rajubhai Soni, Mitesh Bhatt, and Ramesh Chandana — for the gang rape of Bilkis and murder of her family members.

11 challenged conviction in Bombay High Court

CBI also challenged acquittal of Gujarat police officers, state hospital doctors on charges of evidence tampering

CBI wanted death penalty for Jaswantbai Nai, Govindbhai Nai, Radhesham Shah

 the 3 played significant role in “pre-planning and executing” the entire incident.all 3 of them raped Bilkis, her sister and mother and had been identified by her

  

court reserved judgment on the appeal in Nov 2016

conducted daily hearings  for five months

Defence counsel Harshad Ponda, argued Bilkis’ testimony “bogus” 

CBI backed  her by “fabricating evidence”
Ponda for convicts, raised doubts on three points 

chronology of events as narrated by Bilkis

FIR registered in the case by Gujarat Police

photos of dead bodies and other evidence collected
Ponda argued the entire ‘story’ was “fictitious.”
disputed veracity of photographs of bodies that CBI exhumed 

for CBI, advocate Hiten Venegaonkar denied defence’s charges 

sought death penalty,  arguing case was “mass murder” 

14 members of family, including a child three days old, had been killed

the riots had caused an “exodus” 

while Bilkis and her family on the run, they were raped and murdered

the case warranted maximum punishment,” he said.

My comments : To say that the Indian penal system will be unfair on account of religion (Hindu versus Muslim) is therefore not true. That is an unfair and wicked thing to say. That will be a fitnah.

It is also to be noted that the Indian High Court has upheld the conviction of a crime committed  in 2002  when the Governor of Gujarat was Narendra Modi, who is now the Prime Minister of India.  Modi's  "administration has been considered complicit in the 2002 Gujarat riots, or otherwise criticised for its handling of it, although a court found no evidence to prosecute Modi."

It is to be noted that these 11 criminals have been under detention since 2003. And now they will remain in jail for life. 

In Malaysia the Attorney General can get fired in 24 hours just for doing his job of wanting to prosecute a case.  Criminals seem to like Malaysia. They feel protected.