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Several political leaders including TMC leader Mahua Moitra have filed a PIL against the premature release of the convicts.

India's top court has canceled a 2022 Gujarat government order allowing the premature release of 11 men who were convicted for the gangrape of a pregnant Muslim woman, Bilkis Bano.

Eleven convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case who have been roaming free since their remission in 2022 will have to return to jail within two weeks, the Supreme Court said today.

India News: The Congress hails the Supreme Court judgment quashing the Gujarat government's decision to grant remission to 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case. Co

Human rights lawyer Anand Yagnik said the Gujarat governments decision (to grant remission to the convicts) was not in conformity with law but something that appeared to have been passed under certain "social, religious and political pressure". With the Supreme Courts judgment, the rule of law has prevailed, he said.

Bilkis Bano had approached the Supreme Court after the 11 convicts were granted remission by the Gujarat Government on grounds of “good behaviour”.

India News: The Supreme Court overturned the Gujarat government's decision to grant early release to 11 convicts in the 2002 gang-rape of Bilkis Bano and murder o

Bilkis Bano was 21 years old and five months pregnant when she was gang-raped while fleeing the horror of the communal riots that broke out after the Godhra train-burning incident.

Supreme Court on Monday held Bilkis Bano’s plea challenging remission of 11 men who were convicted of raping her and killing her baby daughter as maintainable.

New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday quashed the remission orders passed by the Gujarat government setting free 11 convicts in a case of gang-rape of Bano and murder of her family members committed during the 2002 post-Godhra riots.