A move by India's top court to order record compensation for a Muslim woman gang-raped during religious riots more than 15 years ago could help other victims win justice, her lawyer and activists said Wednesday.
Bilkis Bano was three months pregnant when she was gang raped and her 3-year-old daughter was murdered during the violence that swept the western state of Gujarat state in 2002, killing more than 1,000 people.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ordered the Gujarat government to compensate Bano with 5 million rupees ($72,000), a job and a home after she rejected an offer of 500,000 rupees in March.