Supreme Court to hold final hearing on release of 11 rapists and killers in Bilkis Bano case

New Delhi: The final hearing on the release of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape and murder case in Devgarh Bariya during the Riots in Gujarat will be held on August 7. A bench of Justices Nagaratna and Ujjal Bhuyan said this on Monday while hearing a petition challenging the release of the convicts. Advocates Indira Jai Singh and Brinda Grover appeared for Bilkis and the other petitioners.

On August 15 last year, the Gujarat government had decided to release 11 people convicted in the Bilkis case on the occasion of the 76th Independence Day. Earlier, the convicts convicted in the rape case had moved the apex court seeking release. Based on the petition, the Gujarat government decided