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By Ritika Jain Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice on pleas challenging the Gujarat government's August 15 order allowing the premature release of 11 convicts serving a life sentence for the gang rape of Bilkis Bano and murder of her family members. However, the bench comprising outgoing Chief Justice of India NV Ramana along with Justices Ajay Rastogi and Vikram Nath wondered if there was a legal bar on granting remission to convicts. "The question is under Gujarat Rules, are the convicts entitled for remission or not?" Justice Rastogi said. Challenging the early release, senior advocate ...
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By Ritika Jain The Supreme Court will hear pleas challenging the Gujarat government's August 15 decision to grant remission 11 people convicted of gangraping Bilkis Bano and murdering seven members of her family while they were fleeing their village during the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat. Senior advocate Kapil Sibal mentioned the matter before the bench led by outgoing Chief Justice of India NV Ramana seeking an urgent listing of the same. The batch of pleas has been filed by TMC leader Mahua Moitra, CPI (M) leader Subhashini Ali, journalist Revati Laul and Professor Roop Rekha Verma. "The ...
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By Sana Fazili In an interesting development in the Bilkis Bano case, 11 convicts serving life sentence for murder and gangrape were set free from the Godhra sub-jail on Monday after their application for remission of the sentence was accepted by the state government. A committee was constituted after the order from the Supreme Court. "Good behaviour and compliance with the jail rules" by the convicts were some of the factors that made their case for remission(or premature release) stronger, Sujal Mayatra, the head of the committee and Panchmahal district collector told BOOM. The 11 convicts i...
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