Hyderabad, Aug 18: Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) Working President K.T. Rama Rao on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene and rescind the Gujarat government’s order releasing 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case. “If you had really meant what you spoke about respecting women, urge you to intervene & rescind the Gujarat Govt remission order releasing 11 Rapists,” KTR, as Rama Rao is popularly known, tweeted. He was referring to the Prime Minister’s speech on Independence Day.
During his address fromRed Fort, he had called for changing the mentality towards women. Modi said that respect for women is an important pillar of India’s growth and stressed the need to extend support to ‘Nari Shakti’ and appealed to change the mentality toward women in everyday life. the ramparts of the historic “Sir, it is nauseating, to put it mildly, & against MHA order. Need you to show sagacity to the Nation,” KTR said in another tweet. “Sir, I also urge you to make necessary amendments to the Indian Penal Code (IPC) & The Code of Criminal Procedure (CRPC) suitably so that no Rapist can get bail through the judiciary. Strong legislations are the only way to ensure Judiciary can deliver swiftly & perform at its best,” the TRS leader added.
On Monday, all 11 life imprisonment convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang rape case and murder of seven members of her family on January 21, 2008, walked out of the Godhra sub-jail after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy.
