The Supreme Court of India on Friday dismissed the petitions filed by the convicts in the Bilkis Bano case, asking for more time to surrender before jail authority. The SC in its order, asked all the 11 convicts to surrender before the concerned authority by January 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The apex court noted, dismissing the plea, that the reason cited by 11 convicts to extend their surrender date lacked merits. SC ordered that the 11 convicts have to surrender on the original date, January 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On January 08, the apex court decided that Bilkis Bano\u2019s case, which contested the remission of eleven sentences, may be maintained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SC while scrapping the Gujarat government\u2019s remission, the apex court noted that the Gujarat government didn’t have jurisdiction over the remission of a sentence awarded in Maharashtra. It said the Gujarat government had usurped the power of the Maharashtra government by not filing the review petition against the May 2022 judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Supreme Court further noted that the Gujarat government has misused the power in this case to grant bail to the convicts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the 2002 Gujarat riots, 11 men gang-raped five months pregnant Bilkis Bano and killed her 7 family members including three years old daughter. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On August 15, 2022, the state\u2019s Godhra sub-jail in Gujarat granted the release of all 11 of the convicted felons who had been given life sentences in the 2002 post-Godhra Bilkis Bano gang rape case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The eleven convicted people, on Independence Day, Jaswantbhai Nai, Govindbhai Nai, Shailesh Bhatt, Radhesham Shah, Bipin Chandra Joshi, Kesarbhai Vohania, Pradeep Mordhiya, Bakabhai Vohania, Rajubhai Soni, Mitesh Bhatt, and Ramesh Chandana, came out of jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The top court heard many pleas challenging the remission. TMC\u2019 Mahua Moitra, Subhashini Ali of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), journalist\u00a0Revati Laul, and social activist and professor\u00a0Roop Rekha Verma are a few of the notable figures who raised their voice in the top court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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