New Delhi, Oct. 31 -- The Supreme Court has suspended the sentence and granted bail to two convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang rape case during the 2002 Gujarat riots, citing their long incarceration of 17 years, over two years after quashing the early release of 11 men serving life sentences. The 11 men were convicted in 2008 of gang-raping a three-month pregnant Bilkis Bano and murdering seven of her relatives, during the riots that left 1,000 people dead. The SC on October 28 ordered the release of Bipinchand Kanaiyalal Joshi and Pradip Ramanlal Modhiya. In March it sought responses from the Gujarat and Maharashtra governments after the two challenged the Bombay high court's 2017 order upholding their conviction.P13...