While the convicts pleaded they be allowed to remain outside and their liberty be protected, the Supreme Court said this cannot be accepted since they have lost that right once convicted and sentenced to imprisonment.
The Supreme Court has ordered the convicts in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gangrape case back to prison. On what grounds? What legal option do these 11 men, who walked free in August 2022, have now?
'The decision to once again stand up and knock on the doors of justice was not easy for me. For a long time, after the men who destroyed my entire family and my life were released, I was simply numb.'