Supreme Court Rejects Gujarat's Plea to Remove Criticism in Bilkis Bano Case

The Supreme Court upheld its earlier decision criticizing Gujarat's premature release of 11 convicts, citing no error in the original judgment.

Supreme Court dismissed Gujarat government's review petition to remove critical remarks from the Bilkis Bano case verdict.
The court reaffirmed that Gujarat lacked the authority to release the 11 convicts, who were sentenced in Maharashtra.
The January 8 ruling, which mandated the re-imprisonment of the convicts, remains unchanged.
Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan found no merit or apparent error in the review petitions.
The convicts were originally released in August 2022 under an outdated remission policy, triggering widespread public outrage.