Gujarat Appeals In Bilkis Bano Case, Wants "Adverse Comments" Dropped

A month after the Supreme Court ordered that the 11 men convicted of raping Bilkis Bano and killing her family during the 2002 riots must return to jail, the Gujarat government has approached the court and sought the removal of some "adverse" comments made against it in the judgment. 

In its order on January 8, the Supreme Court bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan had observed that "State of Gujarat has acted on the basis of the direction issued by this Court but contrary to the letter and spirit of law" and  "acted in tandem and was complicit with" one of the convicts in the case who had played a fraud on the court and misrepresented or suppressed material facts.