The Supreme Court today has demanded an explanation from the Gujarat government on whether any departmental inquiry has been initiated against the police officers convicted in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case.

Bilkis Bano told the Supreme Court that the convicted officials who have served their sentence are still working in the police department.

Bano, a gangrape survivor, told the Supreme Court that the compensation awarded to her is inadequate. To this, the court asked her to file a special leave petition (SLP) seeking enhancement of compensation.

The Bombay High Court on May 4 this year upheld a trial court's sentence awarding life imprisonment to 12 people in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case while setting aside the acquittal of seven persons including policemen and doctors.

Bilkis Bano, who was six months pregnant, was gangraped during the communal violence that erupted in Gujarat in 2002. Fourteen members of her family were also brutally murdered by a violent mob.

The trial began in Ahmedabad but the Supreme Court transferred the case to Mumbai in August 2004 after Bano expressed fears that witnesses could be harmed and the Central Bureau of Investigation evidence could be tampered with.

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Bilkis Bano told the Supreme Court that the convicted officials who have served their sentence are still working in the police department.