{
 "no": 23,
 "id": "case-23",
 "sk": 20220815,
 "year": 2022,
 "date": "15 Aug 2022. SC quashed Jan 2024",
 "cat": "Rights and dissent",
 "sev": "red",
 "title": "Bilkis Bano. Gang-rape convicts freed, then sent back",
 "stamp": "Remission quashed by Supreme Court",
 "human": {
  "v": "11 men convicted of gang rape and 7 murders, set free early, then ordered back to prison",
  "est": false
 },
 "cost": {
  "v": "A survivor forced to fight the very state that released her attackers",
  "est": true
 },
 "what": "On Independence Day 2022, the Gujarat government granted remission to 11 men serving life for the 2002 gang rape of Bilkis Bano and the murder of seven of her family, including a three-year-old. The freed men were garlanded.",
 "dodge": "The remission panel reportedly included ruling-party office-bearers, and the release cut against a 2014 central policy barring remission for rape and murder. In 2024 the Supreme Court quashed it, finding Gujarat had usurped jurisdiction and acted in tandem with the convicts. A court, not a conscience, restored the sentence.",
 "ministers": [
  {
   "n": "Gujarat state government (BJP)",
   "r": "Granted the remission"
  }
 ],
 "pos": "The state said it applied its 1992 remission policy after the men had served over 15 years.",
 "alt": "No early release for gang rape and murder, no political hands on remission panels, and respect for the survivor's right to be heard.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "SC quashes remission",
   "url": "https://www.scobserver.in/journal/supreme-court-quashes-the-remission-of-11-convicts-in-bilkis-bano-case/",
   "tier": 2
  },
  {
   "label": "SC cancels release",
   "url": "https://www.deccanherald.com/amp/story/india%2Fsupreme-court-cancels-release-of-11-convicts-in-bilkis-bano-gangrape-case-2839974",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20240108130229/https://www.deccanherald.com/amp/story/india/supreme-court-cancels-release-of-11-convicts-in-bilkis-bano-gangrape-case-2839974"
  }
 ],
 "estimates": {
  "deaths": 7
 },
 "caseUrl": "https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-23/"
}