Lucknow: Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav has targeted the BJP government over the release of the convicts of the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case from jail. "Welcoming rapist is the rape of justice", Akhilesh tweeted on Tuesday morning. Notably, the 11 convicts of the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case during the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat were released from the Godhra sub-jail on Monday after completing more than 15 years in jail. The BJP government of Gujarat has approved their release under its pardon policy.
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The opposition parties have expressed their opposition to the decision of the Gujarat government in unison. Now Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav has attacked the BJP government in a tweet. Bilkis Bano was 21-year-old and five months pregnant when she was gang-raped by 11 convicts while fleeing the violence that broke out after the Godhra train burning. Among those killed was her three-year-old daughter.
