NEW DELHI - India's Supreme Court will hold a hearing on a petition challenging the release last week of 11 men convicted of gang-raping a pregnant Muslim woman during Hindu-Muslim riots in 2002 in the western state of Gujarat.
However, critics contend that their discharge contradicts the government's stated policy of uplifting women in a country with numerous, well-documented instances of violence against them. The women include Subhashini Ali, an Indian politician and member of the Communist Party of India, Revati Laul, an independent journalist, and Mahua Moitra, a member of Parliament form the opposition Trinamool Congress Party, Mr Sibal said.The violence in Gujarat in 2002 was one of India's worst religious riots and more than 1,000 people died, most of them Muslims.Hindus accused Muslims of setting the fire but Muslims said the train attack was part of a conspiracy to target their community.
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