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.
SC is hearing a set of petitions filed against the Gujarat government’s decision to grant remission to 11 lifers in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape-cum-murder case.
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