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The 11 convicts serving life term walked out of jail on August 15 as they were granted premature release - on account of "good behaviour" - under a 1992 policy by Gujarat's BJP government with a nod from the Union Home Ministry.The latest policy says gangrape and murder convicts cannot be grated early release, but the Supreme Court had agreed with the argument that the 1992 policy, which had no such exception, applied to these men. That 1992 policy was, technically, in effect when the men were convicted in 2008.Challenging this, Bilkis Bano had also argued that Gujarat was not the right state to take a decision as the trial was held in neighbouring Maharashtra. The trial had been moved to Mumbai on the Supreme Court's instructions in 2004 after Ms Bano said a fair trial could not be held in Gujarat.After the men had served about 15 years in jail, one of them went to court asking to be considered for premature release as per the policy for lifers. That contention reach...