Bilkis Bano to get Rs 50 lakh compensation, job, accommodation: SC 

Supreme Court has directed Gujarat government to pay 50 lakhs to Bilkis Bano as compensation within two weeks. Bilkis Bano is a victim of 2002 Gujarat riots. The bench headed by the Chief Justice of India also ordered the state government to provide here a job and accommodation within the next two weeks.

Responding to a plea filed by Bano, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said the order has been compiled with since the Gujarat government wanted the court to reconsider its terms of the precedent it might set.

We make it clear that our order was in view of the particular facts and will not be a precedent. Now you pay her the compensation within two weeks. We are giving you two weeks although you may not even need that much time," said the court.

"Not only was she raped 22 times, her daughter aged 3.2 years was smashed to death. Ever since the appellant has been living a nomadic life and surviving at the charity of NGOs. The appellant is now 40 years old and not very well educated. She has lost her entire family," the Court added.

"We don't have to search for elaborate principles of law to decide that the victim must be adequately compensated. Time and again this court has held that quantum of compensation has to be judged according to the loss suffered," held the Supreme Court on its April order.