India’s apex court quashed on Monday the remission given to 11 Hindu men who were jailed for raping a Muslim mother and killing seven members of her family during religious riots in 2002. The anti-Muslim riots in the western state of Gujarat are widely viewed as some of the worst instances of religious unrest in the predominantly Hindu country. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the state’s chief minister during the violence that killed more than 1,000 people, most of them Muslims. The 11 men were sentenced to life terms in 2008 after being convicted of rape and murder in the case of Bilkis Bano, who was 19 and pregnant with her second child when she was brutally gang raped. —AN
