New Delhi: The Supreme Court is scheduled to announce its verdict on a number of petitions difficult the Gujarat authorities’s resolution to grant early launch to convicts concerned within the gang rape of Bilkis Bano and the homicide of her members of the family in the course of the 2002 Gujarat riots right now.
According to the causelist obtainable on the apex court docket’s web site, a particular bench comprising Justices B.V. Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan will ship the judgment on January 8.
Bilkis Bano Case: Key Points
At the age of 21, Bilkis Bano, 5 months pregnant, endured a harrowing gang rape whereas fleeing the horrors of communal riots sparked by the Godhra train-burning incident. Tragically, her three-year-old daughter was among the many seven members of the family killed in the course of the riots.
In a listening to final September, the Supreme Court raised the query of whether or not convicts possess a basic proper to hunt remission. On October 12, whereas reserving judgment, the highest court docket directed the Centre and the Gujarat authorities to submit the unique information associated to the remission of sentence for the 11 convicts by October 16.
During earlier arguments, the court docket emphasised that state governments shouldn’t selectively grant remission to convicts, asserting that the chance for reform and reintegration into society needs to be prolonged to each prisoner.
Apart from Bano’s petition difficult the remission granted by the Gujarat authorities, a number of different PILs, together with one by CPI(M) chief Subhashini Ali, impartial journalist Revati Laul, and former vice-chancellor of Lucknow University Roop Rekha Verma, have contested the aid. Trinamool Congress chief Mahua Moitra has additionally filed a PIL towards the remission and the untimely launch of the convicts.
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