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Vadodara: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) got two days custody of the tax officer who was caught red-handed accepting a bribe of Rs 5,000 in Godhra o.

The court determined that the Gujarat government lacked the authority to issue remission orders, asserting that this power rested with the Maharashtra government, the state where the accused were sentenced. - Newsx

The convicts, however, are 'not incommunicado' and some of them are visiting relatives, Dahod Superintendent of Police Balram Meena said

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The convicts, however, are "not incommunicado" and some of them are visiting relatives, Dahod Superintendent of Police Balram Meena said on Tuesday.

While the convicts pleaded they be allowed to remain outside and their liberty be protected, the Supreme Court said this cannot be accepted since they have lost that right once convicted and sentenced to imprisonment.

Bilkis and her family had left their house in Randhikpur on February 28, 2002, soon after the train-burning incident in Godhra the previous day. On March 3, 2002, she was gangraped and 14 members of the family, including her three-year-old daughter, were killed by a mob in Limkheda taluka of Dahod.

A school teacher collapsed and died in a classroom in the Bahi village in Shehra taluka of Panchmahal district due to a suspected cardiac arrest.

Bilkis, in a statement issued through her lawyer Shobha Gupta, thanked the top court and said 'this is what justice feels like' and 'today is truly the New Year for me', PTI reported

The Supreme Court has ordered the convicts in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gangrape case back to prison. On what grounds? What legal option do these 11 men, who walked free in August 2022, have now?