Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 08:19am on 08 Jan 2024,Monday India
The Supreme Court directs 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case, previously granted remission by Gujarat in 2022, to return to jail within two weeks. The court rules that the Gujarat government lacked jurisdiction to pass remission orders, emphasizing complicity with the convicts. Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan state, "The state of Gujarat acted in complicit with the convicts." The decision follows an October 2023 hearing where the court reserved judgment and requested original records. The 11 convicts, released in 2022 under an outdated law, faced legal challenges led by Bilkis Bano.
