The Supreme Court is likely to take up, on December 13, a plea filed by Bilkis Bano, against the release of 11 men convicted of gang-raping her in the 2002 Gujarat riots, and also accused of murders of multiple members of her family.

Bilkis Bano said release of all the convicts came as a shock not only to the petitioner, to her grown-up daughters, to her family, but also to the society at large, nationally, and internationally.