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  Supreme Court to consider listing of review plea in Bilkis Bano case

  India | December 12, 2022 14:04 IST

  The plea is listed for hearing on December 13 before a bench of justices Ajay Rastogi and Bela M Trived. The gang-rape survivor has sought a review of the apex court’s May 13, 2022 order on a plea by a convict.

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  Bilkis Bano case: Supreme Court to hear on December 13 plea against release of 11 convicts

  India | December 10, 2022 16:39 IST

  Bilkis Bano case: Gujarat's remission order is a mechanical order of remission by completely ignoring the law requirements as consistently laid down, the plea said. Earlier, some PILs were filed seeking directions to revoke the remission granted to 11 convicts.

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  'Will stand and fight again': Bilkis Bano on remission to 11 convicts in 2002 gang-rape

  India | December 01, 2022 19:36 IST

  The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to consider listing fresh plea of Bilkis Bano challenging remission of sentence and release of convicts in 2002 gang-rape case.

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  Bilkis Bano moves Supreme Court challenging release of convicts in 2002 gang-rape case

  India | November 30, 2022 13:52 IST

  The court had, on October 18, said the Gujarat government's reply to petitions challenging the remission is very bulky, wherein a series of judgments have been quoted but factual statements are missing.

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  Bilkis Bano case: SC agrees to hear fresh plea challenging remission granted to convicts

  India | October 21, 2022 13:00 IST

  Bilkis Bano case: A bench of justices Ajay Rastogi and CT Ravikumar tagged the matter with the main petition and said it would be heard along with it.

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  Bilkis Bano case: SC to hear pleas against release of 11 convicts on November 29

  India | October 18, 2022 13:22 IST

  Bilkis Bano was 21 years old and five-month pregnant when she was gang-raped while fleeing the riots that broke out after the Godhra train burning incident. Her three-year-old daughter was among the seven family members killed.

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  'Good behaviour, Centre's approval': Gujarat govt to SC on Bilkis Bano case convicts release

  India | October 17, 2022 23:55 IST

  In an affidavit, the state Home Department's Under Secretary said: "I say that the state government considered all the opinions and decided to release 11 prisoners since they have completed 14 years and above in prisons and their behaviour was found to be good."

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  Bilkis Bano case: Social activists plan 180-km march to protest release of 11 convicts

  India | September 16, 2022 22:16 IST

  Bilkis Bano case: Eleven convicts were released from a jail in Godhra on August 15 after they were granted remission by the Gujarat government. The activists will march under the banner of 'Hindu Muslim Ekta Samiti' and cover the 180-kilometre distance between September 26 and October 4.

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  Rectify 'horrendously wrong decision' of remission in Bilkis Bano case: 134 ex-bureaucrats to CJI

  India | August 27, 2022 23:29 IST

  Bilkis Bano case: The bureaucrats asked the CJI to rescind the order of remission passed by the Gujarat government and send the 11 persons convicted of gangrape and murder back to jail to serve out their life sentence.

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  'Those giving slogans of Beti Bachao are saving rapists': Rahul Gandhi seeks justice for Bilkis Bano

  India | August 25, 2022 13:00 IST

  Bilkis Bano case: Bilkis Bano was gang-raped in Gujarat's Randhikpur village and seven members of her family, including her three-year-old daughter, were killed on March 3, 2002.

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  Bilkis Bano case: SC notice to Gujarat govt on plea against remission to 11 convicts

  India | August 25, 2022 13:11 IST

  The remission and consequent release of 11 convicts on August 15 this year from the Godhra sub-jail under the Gujarat government's remission policy has sparked a debate on the issue of such relief in heinous cases.

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  Bilkis Bano case: 'Wrong if person accused of crime is felicitated', says Devendra Fadnavis

  India | August 24, 2022 8:07 IST

  Bilkis Bano case: Replying to a discussion in the Legislative Council on an incident in the Bhandara district where a 35-year-old woman was sexually assaulted allegedly by three people, Fadnavis said there was no reason to raise the Bilkis Bano issue in the House.

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  SC to consider hearing plea against grant of remission to 11 convicts in Bilkis Bano case

  India | August 23, 2022 11:45 IST

  Bilkis Bano, who was pregnant at the time, was gangraped and her three-year-old daughter Saleha was among 14 killed by a mob on March 3, 2002.

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  'They are Brahmins, men of good sanskar': BJP MLA's shocker in Bilkis Bano case

  India | August 18, 2022 23:09 IST

  BJP MLA Rauliji, incidentally, is part of the two-person BJP team who were part of the Gujarat government panel that unanimously decided to release the rapists.

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  Bilkis Bano 'bereft of words' over release of rape convicts; says no one enquired about her safety

  India | August 18, 2022 10:24 IST

  Bilkis Bano case: The 11 convicts walked out of the Godhra sub-jail on Monday after the BJP government in Gujarat allowed their release under its remission policy.

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  Bilkis case: Rahul says entire country seeing difference between PM Modi's words, deeds

  India | August 17, 2022 12:49 IST

  The BJP government in Gujarat released all the 11 people convicted for the rape of a pregnant Bilkis Bano and murder of seven of her family members during the 2002 Gujarat riots, under its remission policy.

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  Bilkis Bano case: PM, BJP face fire on convicts release; Gujarat govt defends move | Top points

  India | August 16, 2022 23:02 IST

  Bilkis Bano was 21 years old and five months pregnant when she was gang raped while fleeing the violence that broke out post the Sabarmati train burning incident in Godhra. Seven members of her family were killed during the 2002 post-Godhra riots.

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  Bilkis Bano to get Rs 50 lakh compensation, job, accommodation: SC

  India | September 30, 2019 12:31 IST

  The top court has also ordered the state government to give her a job and accommodation.

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  Transferred to Meghalaya, Madras HC Chief Justice V K Tahilramani resigns

  India | September 07, 2019 12:36 IST

  She tendered her resignation to President Ram Nath Kovind and sent a copy of it to Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi last night, official sources said on Saturday.

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  2002 Gujarat riots case: SC asks Gujarat govt to pay Rs 50 lakh as compensation to Bilkis Bano

  India | April 23, 2019 14:18 IST

  A Bench of Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna directed the Gujarat Government to provide Bilkis Bano, a government job and accommodation as per rules.