AMN / NEW DELHI
The Supreme Court today asked the Gujarat government to take disciplinary action in two weeks against the erring police officials including an IPS officer, convicted by the Bombay High Court in the Bilkis Bano case in the 2002 Gujarat riot case.
A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna adjourn the matter for two weeks.
The bench termed the five lakh rupees compensation offered by the government as ‘interim’ and said the plea for exemplary compensation will be heard on April 23.