Bilkis Bano was gang-raped and 14 people with her were killed in Gujarat on 3 March 2002. After police closed the case, the Supreme Court ordered a CBI probe a…
A fire on the Sabarmati Express killed 59 people. Communal violence spread across Gujarat.
Bilkis Bano, 21 and five months pregnant, was gang-raped. Fourteen people with her were killed.
The FIR left out the rape and said she did not know her attackers, though she named them.
Police closed the case as true but undetected. A magistrate accepted the closure.
What the courts found about the original police work.
The court set aside the closure and handed the investigation to the CBI.
The CBI charged 12 attackers, six police personnel and two doctors.
Fearing an unfair trial in Gujarat, she won a transfer to Mumbai.
Eleven men were convicted of gang rape and murder and sentenced to life.
Every accused, and what became of the charge.
The life sentences stood. Five police officers and two doctors were convicted.
Gujarat was told to pay her Rs 50 lakh and offer a job and a home.
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A bench said Gujarat could decide a convict's remission under its 1992 policy.
Gujarat remitted the sentences on 10 August. All 11 men walked free.
Why the choice of government mattered.
Bilkis Bano filed her own petition to quash the remission orders.
Only Maharashtra could grant remission, the court held. The 2022 order was obtained by fraud.
The five holdings and the order that followed.
All 11 surrendered before midnight, after pleas for more time failed.
Gujarat's petition to review the judgment was dismissed in chambers.
From a closed file to a Supreme Court reversal.
The life sentences stand. Any remission must come from Maharashtra.
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