The Supreme Court has directed eleven convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang rape case, released on remission in 2022, to return to jail within two weeks. Cancelling the Gujarat governmentās remission, the court ruled that the state lacked the competence to decide on remission. The decision followed Bilkis Banoās request challenging the remission, deemed āmaintainableā by the court.
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