Bilkis Bano to get Rs 50 lakh compensation, job, accommodation: SC


New Delhi, Sep 30 (IANS): The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the Gujarat government to pay Rs 50 lakh to 2002 communal riot victim Bilkis Bano, within two weeks.

The top court has also ordered the state government to give her a job and accommodation.

The court has turned down a plea by Gujarat to reconsider its April order which made the same recommendations.

  

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  • MM, Mangalore

    Mon, Sep 30 2019

    Where is the justice for 2000 innocents butchered and old lady Zakia jafri whose husband was brutally killed in front of her own eyes.

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  • James, Belman

    Mon, Sep 30 2019

    She fought a lonely battle for justice for almost 17 years. There are hundreds of other families who lost everything and not compansated anything other than threats and torture.
    People who was in power and kept silent for three days and allowed the state to burn will never been forgiven and God will declare his verdict one day for them.

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  • Deshbhakht, Mangalore

    Mon, Sep 30 2019

    If Bilkis Bano is a victim, why were the perpetrators declared innocent ??

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