TNM spoke to CPI(M) leader Subhashini Ali and journalist Revati Laul, co-petitioners in one PIL in the case, about the motivations behind filing the petition an
These were the issues: Was Art 32 available to Bikis? Was Gujarat’s remission order correct and legal? Should the convicts be sent back to jail after they had already been released? Here’s what the court ruled.
The Supreme Court quashed the Gujarat government s decision to release 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano rape case, stating that it was obtained through fraud. This decision was hailed as a victory of justice by political leaders.
Bilkis Bano was 21 years old and five months pregnant when she was gang-raped while fleeing the horror of the communal riots that broke out after the Godhra train-burning incident in 2002