All 11 convicts within the 2002 Bilkis Bano gangrape case surrendered at a Gujarat jail on Sunday night time in step with the Supreme Court docket enforced deadline.
They surrendered at Godhra sub jail in Panchmahal district.
“All 11 convicts have surrendered earlier than jail authorities late Sunday night time,” native Crime Department inspector NL Desai instructed information company PTI.
The Supreme Court docket on January 8 requested the convicts, launched prematurely on Independence Day in 2022, to give up earlier than jail authorities by January 21. On Friday, the courtroom refused to grant them extra time.
The convicts had cited causes reminiscent of well being points, impending surgical procedure, marriage within the household and harvest work and sought extra time to give up.
The highest courtroom famous that the explanations cited by candidates to hunt postponement of give up and report again to jail “don’t have any benefit”.
The 11 convicts are Bakabhai Vohania, Bipin Chandra Joshi, Kesarbhai Vohania, Govind Nai, Jaswant Nai, Mitesh Bhatt, Pradeep Mordhiya, Radheshyam Shah, Rajubhai Soni, Ramesh Chandana and Shailesh Bhatt.
Bilkis Bano was 21 years outdated and 5 months pregnant when she was gang-raped whereas making an attempt to flee the horror of the communal riots that broke out after the Godhra practice burning incident in February 2002.
