Bilkis Bano case: The Supreme Court will pronounce its verdict today (January 8) on a batch of petitions difficult the premature release of 11 convicts within the Bilkis Bano gang rape case and the homicide of seven of her relations through the 2002 Gujarat riots.
A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan had on October 12, 2023, reserved its verdict after an 11-day listening to on the petitions, together with the one filed by Bano.
While reserving the judgement, the apex court docket had directed the central in addition to Gujarat governments to submit unique data associated to the remission of the sentence of 11 convicts within the Bilkis Bano case by October 16.
Gujarat govt launched 11 convicts
The Gujarat authorities launched the 11 convicts, who have been sentenced to life imprisonment, on August 15, 2022. All the convicts within the case have been launched as per the remission coverage prevalent in Gujarat on the time of their conviction in 2008.
In addition to Bano’s petition difficult the remission to convicts, a quantity of different PILs have additionally challenged the aid, together with one from CPI(M) chief Subhashini Ali, unbiased journalist Revati Laul, and former vice-chancellor of Lucknow University Roop Rekha Verma. TMC MP Mahua Moitra has additionally filed a PIL in opposition to the remission granted to the convicts and their premature release.
Bilkis Bano case
In March 2002 through the Godhra riots, Bano was allegedly gang-raped and left to die with 14 members of her household, together with her three-year-old daughter. She was 21 years outdated and 5 months pregnant when she was gang-raped whereas fleeing the horror of the communal riots in Vadodara.
Bilkis Bano and others had approached the highest court docket difficult the premature release of 11 convicts. Some PILs have been filed searching for instructions to revoke the remission granted to 11 convicts. Earlier, the Gujarat authorities in its affidavit had defended remission granted to convicts saying they accomplished 14 years of sentence in jail and their “behaviour was found to be good”.
