The Gujarat government last week released the 11 convicts who gang-raped Bilkis Bano and murdered 14 of her family.
Two petitions – including one by TMC leader Mahua Moitra – were filed in the Supreme Court on Tuesday, 23 August, challenging the remission order by the Gujarat government which released the convicts in the Bilkis Bano case, Live Law reported.
Moitra filed a public interest litigation (PIL) through advocate Shadan Farasat; CPI(M) leader Subhasini Ali, independent journalist and film-maker Revati Laul, and former philosophy professor and activist Roop Rekh Varma, collectively filed another petition.
Both petitions moved the apex court against the Gujarat government’s highly controversial 15 August move to release the 11 convicts who had gang-raped Bano and murdered 14 of her family members, including her three-year-old daughter, during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
