“The reasons cited by the (11) applicants to seek postponement of surrender and report back to jail have no merit inasmuch as those reasons in no way prevent them from complying with our directions,” the Court said while dismissing the applications.The 11 convicts had yesterday moved the SC, seeking more time to surrender in the case citing ill health, harvest of winter crops, and son’s marriage.The Supreme Court had yesterday agreed to list for hearing today the applications filed by the ten convicts. Only one convict had moved SC yesterday night in the Bilkis Bano case, seeking more time also to surrender in the case.The Supreme Court in its landmark verdict on January 8, had quashed the Gujarat govt’s August 15, 2022, decision and order to grant remission to 11 convicts, sentenced to life term for the gangrape of Bilkis Bano & killing her family members during the 2002 Gujarat communal riots and directed all these 11 convicts to surrender within two weeks in the case by January 21, Sunday.
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