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The petition was moved by Dahod resident Majidbhai Pipalodiya who challenged an FIR naming him and others for rioting and attempted murder and alleged that the police raid in question was fake.
The eyewitness was seven when a mob attacked his cousin Bilkis Bano and other members of the minority community in Limkheda taluka of Gujarat’s Dahod district and killed 14 of them during riots that erupted in 2002 after the Godhra train burning incident
Bilkis Bano, who was raped while fleeing during the riots, is relieved that the convicts will be sent back to prison. The witness insists that justice will only be served if the men are either hanged or kept behind bars for life.
'All the convicts must be either hanged for or they must be kept behind bars for the remainder of their lives. Only then justice will be served'
The only eyewitness in the Bilkis Bano case has said that the individuals convicted for the gruesome crime must be hanged or jailed for the remainder of their lives and only then would justice be served.