Supreme Court questions Gujarat on Selective Use of Policy for Early Release of Bilkis Bano Convicts

Supreme Court questions Gujarat on Selective Use of Policy for Early Release of Bilkis Bano Convicts

The opportunity to reform must be given to all prisoners and not a few, the Supreme Court said on Thursday as it asked Gujarat whether its remission policy was applied selectively and why the Mumbai court that convicted 11 people in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gang rape case was not consulted when the men were released last year. The court was hearing a petition filed by the victim Bano along with a set of public interest litigations (PIL) challenging the release of the 11 convicts in August last year, despite…

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