The Shiv Sena on Sunday questioned the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the release of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case and also asked if felicitation of rapists was "Hindu culture".

The comments were made in Rokhthok column of the Sena mouthpiece Saamana which carried the 'Kadaknath Mumbaikar' byline and not of the Marathi daily's executive editor Sanjay Raut, who is currently in jail on money laundering charges.