Overview

• 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• The convicts were originally released in August 2022 under an outdated remission policy, triggering widespread public outrage.