Saturday, August 27, 2022

An attack on Hinduism.

Who is Bilkis Bano? "On February 28, 2002, Bilkis fled her village, Randhikpur in Dahod District" in Gujarat, "accompanied by her daughter Saleha, who was three-and-a-half years old at the time." TIE. Bilkis was 21 years old and 5 months pregnant. On 3 March 2002, the family was attacked in Chapparwad village by 20-30 men, armed with sickles, swords and sticks. "Bilkis, her mother and three other women were raped and brutally assaulted" and her daughter Saleha was killed by "smashing" her on the ground. "According to the CBI, the heads of the corpses had been severed after the autopsy so that the bodies could not be identified." But, astonishingly, "All the eleven convicts sentenced to life imprisonment for the post-Godhra Bilkis Bano gang rape and murder of seven members of her family...walked out of Godhra sub-jail after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy, an official said." BS. The remission policy of 1992 was lenient and convicts were freed for 'good behavior' after serving a few years in prison, swarajyamag. However, this was tightened in 2014 so that remission could be refused in cases of murder, rape or gang rape. In May 2022, the Supreme Court directed the Gujarat government to look into the eligibility for remission and the Court "was of the view that the 1992 policy should be applied in this matter as at the time of conviction in 2008, the policy which stood was the 1992 policy." When the criminals walked out of prison they were greeted by "their relatives and neighbors with garlands, tilaks (vermilion mark on forehead) and sweets". scroll.in. They were then garlanded in the auditorium of the "Deen Dayal Upadhyay Trust, named after the first president of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the precursor to India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, which is also in government in Gujarat." And at the Center. "Merely because the act was horrific, is that sufficient to say remission was wrong?" asked Supreme Court Justice Ajay Rastogi according to LiveLaw. The Wire. "The BJP is a Hindu nationalist political party in India that believes that Hinduism and Indian national identity are more or less synonymous. For many in the party, Indian culture is quite simply Hindu culture." Carnegie. That being the case, India and Hindus are now world famous for celebration of gang rape and mass murder. "It has been well documented that some police and state officials tried to intimidate her, evidence was destroyed and the dead were buried without post-mortems. The doctors who examined her said she hadn't been raped, and she received death threats." BBC. "Five of the 10 members of the review panel that recommended their release are affiliated with Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is currently in power both in the state of Gujarat and at the federal level. CK Raulji, a BJP lawmaker who sat on the panel, told Indian media outlet MoJo Story that the convicts are 'Brahmins' - upper caste Hindu- and had 'good values'." pbs.org. Brahmins usually perform our rituals in temples. Isn't this blasphemy against  Hinduism?     

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