By PTI
NEW DELHI: “I will stand and fight again, against what is wrong and for what is right,” mentioned Bilkis Bano, who has moved the Supreme Court difficult the remission and launch of 11 convicts within the 2002 case associated to her gangrape and homicide of seven members of her household.
Bano was 21 years previous and five-month pregnant when she was gangraped whereas fleeing the 2002 Gujarat riots that broke out after the Godhra prepare burning incident.
Her three-year-old daughter was among the many seven members of the family killed.
In her two separate petitions, she has challenged the untimely launch of the convicts by the Gujarat authorities on August 15, saying it has “shaken the conscience of society”.
In a press release, issued on Thursday, she mentioned, “The decision to once again stand up and knock on the doors of justice was not easy for me. For a long time, after the men who destroyed my entire family and my life were released, I was simply numb. I was paralysed with shock and with fear for my children, my daughters, and above all, paralysed by loss of hope.”
She added, “But, the spaces of my silence were filled with other voices; voices of support from different parts of the country that have given me hope in the face of unimaginable despair; and made me feel less alone in my pain. I cannot express in words what this support has meant to me.”
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Bano mentioned the assist to her trigger from completely different components of the nation has helped her in rekindling her religion in humanity and renewed her braveness to consider once more within the thought of justice.
“So, I will stand and fight again, against what is wrong and for what is right. I do this today for myself, for my children, and for women everywhere”, she mentioned.
NEW DELHI: “I will stand and fight again, against what is wrong and for what is right,” mentioned Bilkis Bano, who has moved the Supreme Court difficult the remission and launch of 11 convicts within the 2002 case associated to her gangrape and homicide of seven members of her household.
Bano was 21 years previous and five-month pregnant when she was gangraped whereas fleeing the 2002 Gujarat riots that broke out after the Godhra prepare burning incident.
Her three-year-old daughter was among the many seven members of the family killed.
In her two separate petitions, she has challenged the untimely launch of the convicts by the Gujarat authorities on August 15, saying it has “shaken the conscience of society”.
In a press release, issued on Thursday, she mentioned, “The decision to once again stand up and knock on the doors of justice was not easy for me. For a long time, after the men who destroyed my entire family and my life were released, I was simply numb. I was paralysed with shock and with fear for my children, my daughters, and above all, paralysed by loss of hope.”
She added, “But, the spaces of my silence were filled with other voices; voices of support from different parts of the country that have given me hope in the face of unimaginable despair; and made me feel less alone in my pain. I cannot express in words what this support has meant to me.”
ALSO READ | Bilkis Bano case: Convicts launched for good behaviour, Gujarat govt to SC
Bano mentioned the assist to her trigger from completely different components of the nation has helped her in rekindling her religion in humanity and renewed her braveness to consider once more within the thought of justice.
“So, I will stand and fight again, against what is wrong and for what is right. I do this today for myself, for my children, and for women everywhere”, she mentioned.
