New Supreme Court bench to hear Bilkis Bano’s plea on Mar 27

A new bench in the Supreme Court, comprising justices KM Joseph and BV Nagarathna, will hear on March 27 a clutch of petitions against the Gujarat government’s decision to grant remission to 11 people convicted and sentenced to a life term for gang-raping Bilkis Bano and murdering her family members during the 2002 Gujarat riots.