Bilkis Bano's Plea Against Rapists' Release In Supreme Court On Tuesday
NDTV
Bano, in two separate petitions, had challenged the early release of the convicts by the Gujarat government on August 15.
The Supreme Court will hear Bilkis Bano's plea challenging the remission and release of 11 convicts in the 2002 case related to her gangrape and murder of seven members of her family on December 13.
The plea will be listed before a bench led by Justice Ajay Rastogi. Bano, in two separate petitions, had challenged the early release of the convicts by the Gujarat government on August 15.
Bano was 21 and five-month pregnant when she was gangraped during the 2002 Gujarat riots that followed the Godhra train burning incident. Bano's three-year-old daughter was also among the seven members of her family who were killed.
"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. I was paralysed with shock and with fear for my children, my daughters, and above all, paralysed by loss of hope," she had said at the time of filing of the petitions.
