Supreme Court:Judge Bela M. Trivedi of the Supreme Court withdrew on Wednesday from hearing a group of appeals contesting the commuted sentences of 11 prisoners in the case of Bilkis Bano, who was gang-raped and seven members of her family were killed in the Gujarat riots of 2002.
Justice Bela M. Trivedi of the Supreme Court withdrew from hearing a group of petitions contesting the sentences of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case
Justices Ajay Rastogi and Bela M. Trivedi heard a number of arguments against the release of the criminals, including those of CPI (M) leader Subhashini Ali, writer Revati Laul, former vice chancellor of Lucknow University Roop Rekha Verma, and Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra.
As my sister judge had previously declined to hear the victim’s plea, Justice Rastogi stated that she would likewise decline to hear this case.
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According to Justice Trivedi, the victim has petitioned the Supreme Court to contest the remission of convicts, and her case will be taken on priority basis
Since the victim has come before this court to contest the remission to prisoners, Justice Rastogi declared, her plea will be treated as a lead matter. When the bench is seated with a different set of judges, the other petitions will be joined with hers, according to Justice Rastogi.
“On the following date, we shall list every topic and include every petition. By then, all of the pleadings should be finished “stated the bench.
Bilkis Bano claimed in her writ petition that the State Government enacted a mechanical order fully disregarding the law as established by the Supreme Court, which resulted in the release of convicts
Bilkis Bano claimed in her writ petition that the state administration enacted a mechanical order fully disregarding the legal necessity as set forth by the Supreme Court, which had resulted in the release of the convicts on August 15 of last year after the grant of remission.
When Bano was gang-raped while escaping the riots that started after the Godhra train fire event, she was 21 years old and five months pregnant. One of the seven members of her family that perished was her three-year-old daughter.
The case was turned over to the CBI for investigation, and the Supreme Court moved the trial to a court in Maharashtra. The 11 defendants were sentenced to life in jail on January 21, 2008, by a special CBI court in Mumbai.
Later, both the Bombay High Court and the Supreme Court upheld their conviction.
The Gujarat government approved the release of the 11 men under its remission policy, and they left the Godhra sub-jail on August 15 of last year. They’d spent more than 15 years behind bars.
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