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Watch: What the Supreme Court Said in the 'Bilkis Bano' Judgment

author Yaqut Ali
Jan 09, 2024
The court said on Monday that Gujarat's government “acted in complicity with the convicts” and noted that if the convicts can “circumvent the consequences of their conviction”, peace and tranquillity in society would be endangered.
The Supreme Court. Photo: Pinakpani/Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has said that the Gujarat government does not have the power to grant the premature release of 11 convicts who had been sentenced to life for gang-raping a pregnant Bilkis Bano, members of her family, and also mass murdering at least 14 of them in the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Watch this video report by The Wire’s Yaqut Ali to know more.

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