New Delhi: The Supreme Court today, dismissed a plea filed by Bilkis Bano, seeking a review of its order passed in May by which it had asked the Gujarat government to consider a petition for the remission of the sentences of 11 convicts in the gang-rape case.

According to procedures, review pleas against apex court judgments are decided in chambers by circulation by the judges who were part of the judgment under review.

Bano’s review plea came up for in-chamber consideration on December 13 before a bench of justices Ajay Rastogi and Vikram Nath.

“I am directed to inform you that the review petition above mentioned filed in Supreme Court was dismissed by the court on December 13, 2022,” read a communication sent to Bano’s counsel Shobha Gupta by the apex court’s assistant registrar.

Bano was gang-raped and seven members of her family were killed during the 2002 Gujarat riots. The gang-rape survivor had sought a review of the top court’s May 13 order on a plea moved by one of the convicts.

The apex court had asked the state government to consider the plea for a premature release of the convict in terms of its policy of July 9, 1992 about taking a decision on a remission petition within a period of two months.

The 11 men convicted in the case walked out of the Godhra sub-jail on August 15 after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy. They had spent more than 15 years in jail.