When the government in Gujarat, which is run by Mr. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, ordered the release of the convicts in 2022, it was widely seen as an effort to rally the party’s Hindu-right base before a state election. The Indian home affairs minister, Amit Shah, considered Mr. Modi’s right-hand man, approved the Gujarat decision. The B.J.P. went on to win the state election.
Disgusting.
Why is literally gang raping women and murdering a little girl by smashing her head on a rock something Hindu-nationalists would rally behind? What the fuck. This seems wayyyyy more extreme than the “usual” conservatism people like to rally around, like wanting women to do woman things and be subservient to men.
The usual conservative thing is to treat women as property. What one does with the property doesn’t concern them.
Highly recommend you watch the BBC 2 part documentary on Modi. It doesn’t cover everything Modi did before he came to power. But still should be worth a watch.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The victim, Bilkis Bano, was three months pregnant when she and 15 members of her family tried to flee their village in 2002 during Hindu-Muslim violence in the state of Gujarat, in western India.
On Monday, India’s Supreme Court said that the Gujarat government had acted beyond its powers in granting the assailants early release from prison in August 2022.
The court ordered the men, who had been greeted by right-wing Hindu nationalists with sweets and garlands upon their return home in 2022, to surrender within two weeks.
Vrinda Grover, a human rights lawyer based in New Delhi, said that the court’s decision amounted to “a scathing indictment of the state of Gujarat.”
Mr. Modi has long been accused of having turned a blind eye to, or even encouraged, the mob violence, though the Supreme Court has cleared him of the allegations.
The Indian home affairs minister, Amit Shah, considered Mr. Modi’s right-hand man, approved the Gujarat decision.
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