Faces and memories of survivors who bore the brunt of the Gujarat communal carnage in 2002, which broke out on this day 16 years ago, under the watch of then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi
By NH Political Bureau
Photo by Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via Getty Images Bilkis Bano, a gangrape survivor from the 2002 Gujarat riots, along with her daughter during a press conference after 15 years of the riots, at Press club of India in Delhi on May 8, 2017. Bilkis Bano was gang-raped and saw 14 members of her family being murdered by a Hindu mob during the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat. 15 years later, the Bombay High Court on Thursday upheld the life sentence of the 11 accused as well as convicting 5 policemen and 2 doctors for covering up the heinous crime. They rejected the CBI plea for death penalty for 3 main accused
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