Most of the convicts arrived in a 10-seater multi-utility car that was led by an SUV – the 2 automobiles made their manner into the jail premises inside minutes of one another. Officials of the district police confirmed that that they had “tracked and escorted” all 11 accused into the jail premises.

In anticipation of the give up, the Panchmahal district police had deployed a number of items of personnel on bandobast exterior the Godhra sub-jail since late night on Sunday. Authorities of Godhra sub-jail confirmed that the 11 convicts had surrendered at 11.45 pm on Sunday.

This comes two days after the Supreme Court dismissed their petitions in search of extra time to give up. The convicts had cited varied causes resembling ill-health of ageing dad and mom, a marriage within the household, and crop harvest, amongst others.

On January 8, the highest courtroom had quashed the Gujarat authorities choice to grant remission to the 11 convicts, who had been sentenced to life time period for raping Bano and killing her members of the family through the 2002 Gujarat riots. The courtroom had stated the Gujarat authorities “usurped” the facility of the Maharashtra authorities and lacked competence and jurisdiction within the matter.

The Gujarat authorities had launched the convicts on August 15 final yr as per its 1992 remission coverage, primarily based on a May 2022 Supreme Court order in a petition filed by one of many convicts, Radheshyam Shah. Bano had challenged the state authorities’s choice earlier than the apex courtroom.

Bano was 21 years outdated and 5 months pregnant when she was gangraped whereas fleeing together with her household from Randhikpur within the aftermath of the 2002 Sabarmati prepare carnage. In the identical incident, 14 members of her household, together with her three-year-old daughter, have been killed.