Top News Of The Day: Judge Who Convicted Bilkis Bano's Rapists Speaks Out

Eleven men who raped 2002 Gujarat riots survivor Bilkis Bano and killed seven members of her family should not have been released, the judge who convicted them 14 years ago has said, criticising the sweets-and-garland welcome for them by politicians with "one ideology". "Whoever took this decision, should reconsider this, that's all I can say," Justice UD Salvi, who retired as a Bombay High Court judge, said on Tuesday in Mumbai. Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister, the BJP's Devendra Fadnavis, has strongly criticised the grand welcome given to the 11 men convicted for the rape of Bilkis Bano after their release from jail. Ten months after a group of farmers were run over in UP's Lakhimpur allegedly by the son of junior home minister Ajay Mishra Teni , the minister made shocking comments mocking farmers and comparing them to barking dogs and calling farmer leader Rakesh Tikait a "second-rate person".