Supreme Court has ordered the Gujarat government to pay ₹50 lakh to Bilkis Yakoob Rasool Bano.
She is a gang-rape survivor of the 2002 communal pogrom against Muslims in Gujarat under the rule of Narendra Modi.
The Code of Criminal Procedure was amended in 2008 to insert Section 357A.
Section 357 A mandates every state government to prepare a scheme to set up a fund from which compensation can be paid to victims of crime and their dependants.