The power of the verdict is not just in the truth it has upheld but in the reverberations it could have on other cases related to violence against women.
The Court ruled that the appropriate government entitled to pass order of remission of convicts was Maharashtra government and not Gujarat since the trial in the case had happened in Maharashtra.
The Supreme Court bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan today concluded that the Gujarat government had no power to apply its remission policy to the eleven convicts in the Bilkis Bano rape case.
Supreme Court quashes remission of 11 convicts in Bilkis Bano case, cites Gujarat govt complicity. Convicts ordered to surrender within two weeks. SC deems Gujarat government's remission orders as 'obtained by fraud', stating lack of jurisdiction. Convicts' release challenged by PILs. Details on the gang rape and murder case during 2002 Gujarat riots.