The Wire
By The Wire Staff
August 19, 2022
New Delhi: A Bharatiya Janata Party legislator who was part of the state government’s panel that recommended releasing 11 men convicted of the 2002 gang rape of Bilkis Yakoob Rasool and the mass murder of 14 of her family members has defended the controversial decision on the grounds that the rapists were “Brahmins and have good sanskar (values)”.
Godhra MLA C.K. Raulji – one of at least four members of the committee with affiliations to the BJP – made this statement in an interview to Mojo News. He also cast doubts on the guilt of the 11 men, saying that in a communal situation it is possible that innocent people can be made a party to a crime.