The Bombay High Court has reserved its order on appeals filed by 11 convicts against life sentence awarded to them by the trial court in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case in Gujarat.<br/><br/>The high court also reserved order on an appeal filed by the CBI, seeking death penalty for three convicts on the ground that this was the 'rarest of the rare' case. <br/><br/>A PTI report says the bench of justices Vijaya Tahilramani and Mridula Bhatkar reserved the order recently after conducting a day-to- day hearing on both the appeals since July.<br/><br/>Eleven convicts, who were sentenced to life imprisonment by a trial court in 2008 for raping Bilkis and killing her family members in the aftermath of the Godhra riots, had filed appeals in the high court challenging their conviction. <br/><br/>The CBI had also moved the high court, seeking death penalty for three of them. The Supreme Court had ordered a re-trial of the case in Mumbai.