Bilkis Bano case: SC issues notice to Gujarat on plea challenging release of convicts
New Delhi, August 25: The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Gujarat government, seeking a response to pleas challenging the release of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case.
The top court on Thursday posted the matter for hearing after two weeks.
The plea was filed by members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Subhashini Ali, journalist Revati Laul and social activist and professor Roop Rekha Verma.
Earlier, on August 19, Telangana MLC K Kavitha wrote to Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, seeking the Supreme Court to interfere in the case of the release of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano rape case under the Gujarat government's remission policy.
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On August 15, the Gujarat government released the 11 convicts who had been sentenced to life imprisonment. All the 11 accused were released as per the remission policy prevalent in Gujarat at the time of their conviction in 2008.
During the post-Godhra riots in March 2002, Bano was allegedly gang-raped while several members of her family, including her three-year-old daughter, were killed. Rioters attacked her family in Vadodara while she was five months pregnant.
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