Justice Markandey Katju writes: In the 2002 ‘riots’ in Gujarat — which was really a massacre of Muslims — a large number of Bilkis Bano’s family members were brutally murdered. She, at the time five months pregnant, was gang-raped by the same mob and left to die. Though the court awarded a life sentence to the perpetrators of this heinous crime, they were prematurely released by the Gujarat government on India’s Independence Day (August 15) in 2022.
