Assuring Bilkis Bano of a listening to, the Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to represent a special bench to hear a plea by Bilkis Bano, who was gang-raped throughout the 2002 Gujarat riots, in opposition to the remission of sentence of 11 convicts within the case. On January 24, the listening to on Bano’s plea couldn’t be held within the high court docket because the judges involved had been listening to a matter associated to passive euthanasia as a part of a five-judge Constitution bench.
A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala assured Bano, represented by way of her lawyer Shobha Gupta, that the brand new bench will be fashioned. “I will have a bench constituted. Will look at it this evening,” the CJI mentioned.
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Besides the plea difficult the discharge of the convicts, the gang-rape survivor had additionally filed a separate petition searching for a overview of the apex court docket’s May 13, 2022 order on a plea by a convict. Seven members of Bilkis Bano’s household had been additionally killed throughout the 2002 Gujarat riots.
All 11 convicts had been granted remission by the Gujarat authorities and launched on August 15, final 12 months. Bano’s overview plea in opposition to the May 13, 2022 order, nonetheless, was dismissed by the highest court docket in December final 12 months.
With PTI inputs
