The essence of this decision revolves around defining an "appropriate government" rather than broader considerations of the "power of remission" and associated guidelines.
Zee News and Aaj Tak reported the Supreme Court verdict but DD News announced it in a flash and then went to visit Vibrant Gujarat. Republic Bharat was all religious over ‘sanatan dharm’.
The Supreme Court has corrected its own egregious error from May 2022 that facilitated the release of Bilkis Bano's rapists and sent the 11 convicts back to prison.
A two-judge SC bench led by Justice B.V. Nagarathna Monday quashed the Gujarat government’s August 2022 order allowing premature release of convicts in Bilkis Bano case.
Additional Solicitor General S V Raju said commission of heinous crime does not debar one from benefits of remission, bench asked why jails are overcrowded, particularly by undertrials.
Petitioners who have challenged remission include CPI (M) leader Subhashini Ali & TMC MP Mahua Moitra. Convicts’ lawyers say third-party interference can’t be allowed in ‘criminal matters’.
Bench said it was issuing direction for publication of notices in newspapers so that none of the convicts argue that they weren’t served or intimated about the case.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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