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Eleven convicts, sentenced to life imprisonment, in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case walked out of the Godhra sub-jail on August 15 after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy. They had completed more than 15 years in jail.
The 11 men convicted for the rape of Bilkis Bano and released by the Gujarat government after 15-odd years in jail, were "Brahmins" and had "good sanskaar", the BJP's sitting MLA from Godhra has said.
When as many as 38 people are sentenced to die in one go, it is clear that the 'guidelines' which the Supreme Court had hoped would justify retention of this extreme form of punishment have no value.