Bilkis Bano Case-Remission To Convicts- Supreme Court Hearing LIVE UPDATES
The Supreme Court is hearing the petition challenging the premature release of 11 convicts sentenced to life in the Bilkis Bano case for gangrape & murder.A bench comprising CJI NV Ramana, Justice Ajay Rastogi and Justice Vikram Nath shall hear the matter.The bench will hear the petition filed by CPI (M) MP Subhasini Ali, journalist Revati Laul & Prof Roop Rekha Verma challenging...
The Supreme Court is hearing the petition challenging the premature release of 11 convicts sentenced to life in the Bilkis Bano case for gangrape & murder.
A bench comprising CJI NV Ramana, Justice Ajay Rastogi and Justice Vikram Nath shall hear the matter.
The bench will hear the petition filed by CPI (M) MP Subhasini Ali, journalist Revati Laul & Prof Roop Rekha Verma challenging the Gujarat Government's decision to grant remission to 11 convicts who were sentenced to life imprisonment for the gangrape of Bilkis Bano and murder of her family members during the 2002 post-Godhra riots.
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Sibal : I will make them parties.
CJI dictates order : Petitioner directed to make the convicts parties. Issue notice. List after two weeks.
CJI : Let notice be issued.
Counsel for convicts say they are not made party.
CJI : Mr.Sibal why have you not made them parties?
Sibal : We are challenging state action.
CJI : But they are affected.
Justice Rastogi : Day in and day out remission is granted to convicts of life sentence, what is the exception.
CJI Ramana : That's all we directed, to consider.
CJI Ramana to Gujarat Govt counsel : You file your reply.
Guj counsel : Writ is not maintainable. They are strangers.
CJI Ramana : I am not a party to the judgment. I read somewhere Court has granted permission for remission. No, Court said only to consider.
Justice Rastogi : We are only concerned if remission was in the parameters of law.
Justice Rastogi : Merely because the act was horrifc, is that sufficient to say remission is wrong?
Sibal : 14 people killed. Pregnant women gangraped. A child of 3 years killed smashed to groud.
Justice Rastogi : Whatever they have committed, they have been convicted. The question is whether they are justified in considering remission.
Sibal : In the night of Feb 28, her cousin delivered a baby girl. On Mar 3, 2002, they were proceeding to a village. A group started shouting "Musalmano ko maaro"..they had lathis and sickles..
CJI : These are all facts of the case..
Sibal : In the night of Feb 28, her cousin delivered a baby girl. On Mar 3, 2002, they were proceeding to a village. A group started shouting "Musalmano ko maaro"..they had lathis and sickles..
CJI : These are all facts of the case.
Kapil Sibal arguing for petitioners : Refer page () of petition..large number of persons lost lives in riots in village..there were exodus of Muslims..prosecutrix and her family members fled from village to village..