After Bano filed a petition challenging the state’s decision, the top court quashed the remission order, ruling that the Gujarat government lacked jurisdiction to grant premature release to the convicts as the trial had been held in Maharashtra.
On January 8, the apex court quashed the remissions granted by the Gujarat government last year to the 11 life convicts in the 2002 gang-rape-cum-mass-murder case and asked them to surrender
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