SC refuses Bilkis Bano case convicts ‘breathing time’ to surrender

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The court found no merit in the reasons given by them to seek postponement of their surrender by January 20

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The Supreme Court on Friday refused to give convicts in the Bilkis Bano case any further “breathing time” to surrender.

“When we passed our direction on January 8 for you to surrender, we gave you two weeks to put your affairs in order,” Justice B.V. Nagarathna, heading a Bench comprising Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, told the convicts’ lawyers.

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