Giving time to the petitioners to file rejoinders to the counter affidavits filed by the Gujarat authorities and the convicts, the Supreme Court on Tuesday listed the petitions for listening to. 11 convicts obtained exemption In the Bilkis Bano gang rape case on November 29 dwell regulation knowledgeable of.
According to bar and bench, When the matter got here up for listening to on Tuesday, the Supreme Court stated the response filed by the Gujarat authorities to the petitions was “very overwhelming”.
A bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and Justice CT Ravikumar made the remarks whereas directing the federal government to serve the state’s counter-affidavits on all sides.
“That’s an enormous reply….so many judgments in a single reply. Where is the factual assertion, the place is the usage of the thoughts, bar and bench Referring to the court docket.
CPI(M) member Subhashini Ali, journalist Revathi Laul, Prof Roop Rekha Verma, Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, former IPS officer Dr Meeran Chadha Borwankar, former IFS officer Madhu Baduri and activist Jagdeep Chhokar have filed the petitions.
The Gujarat authorities informed the Supreme Court on Monday That it determined to launch the 11 convicts within the Bilkis Bano case as they “had completed the age of 14 years and above in jail… their behavior was found to be good” and the Center additionally “(its) consent/ was approved”.
In an affidavit filed in response to petitions difficult the exemption granted to prisoners, the state additionally acknowledged that “Superintendent of Police, CBI, Special Crime Branch, Mumbai” and “Special Civil Judge (CBI), City Civil and Sessions Court , Greater Bombay”, had protested the early launch of prisoners in March final 12 months.
Bilkis was gang-raped by a mob on March 3, 2002 in Limkheda taluka of Dahod district through the post-Godhra riots and her three-year-old daughter Saleha was one of many 14. Bilquis was pregnant on the time.
On August 15, 2022, the Gujarat authorities launched all 11 convicts within the case, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 2008, citing the “consensus” advice of the Jail Advisory Committee (JAC). was really useful for exemption. Good conduct”.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
