Bilkis Bano case: SC to hear pleas against release of 11 convicts on Nov 29

A bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and C T Ravikumar directed that the reply filed by the Gujarat government be made available to all parties

Remission granted in Bilkis Bano Case challenged in Supreme Court

The plea was filed by member of the CPI(M) Subhashini Ali, journalist Revati Laul, and social activist and professor Roop Rekha Verma

Is it because state elections are coming up and communal embers can be stoked by setting certain kinds of prisoners free?

During the 2002 Gujarat riots, a five-month pregnant Ms Bano, then 21, was gang-raped by a mob and seven members of her family

The bench made it clear that a separate plea seeking enhancement of compensation to Bano would be heard next week.

The gangrape survivor has sought grant of adequate compensation and initiation of departmental action against the errant police officers.

The gangrape survivor has sought grant of adequate compensation and initiation of departmental action against the errant police officers.

Bilkis Bano, who was five-month pregnant at the time, was gangraped.

IPS officer R S Bhagora, currently serving in Gujarat, has been convicted by the Bombay HC recently after the trial court had acquitted him.

Bilkis was five months pregnant when she was gangraped and lost her three- and-a-half-year-old daughter in the Gujarat riots.