Mumbai trail court judge who had sentenced 11 men to life imprisonment in Bilkis Bano case on Monday said that the Supreme Court’s ruling cancelling the remission granted to the convicted individuals by Gujarat government is “path-breaking and encouraging.”

Justice U D Salvi, now retired, had in 2008 convicted the 11 men in Bilkis Bano case, whose trial was held in Mumbai, newswire PTI reported.