Bilkis Bano Case Verdict: The Supreme Court today overturned the Gujarat government’s decision to release the 11 convicts who raped Bilkis Bano and killed her family during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
On appelant’s request challenging the remission as maintainable, a bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan said the Gujarat government was not the appropriate government to pass the remission order as the trial was held in Maharashtra.
Gujarat government should have filed a plea seeking review of the 2022 order stating they aren’t the competent government.”The exemption order lacks competence,” the Supreme Court said. Criminals can be released only by the state where they are tried, the court said.
