The plea is listed for hearing on December 13 before a bench of justices Ajay Rastogi and Bela M Trived. The gang-rape survivor has sought a review of the apex court’s May 13, 2022 order on a plea by a convict.
Bilkis Bano case: Gujarat's remission order is a mechanical order of remission by completely ignoring the law requirements as consistently laid down, the plea said. Earlier, some PILs were filed seeking directions to revoke the remission granted to 11 convicts.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to consider listing fresh plea of Bilkis Bano challenging remission of sentence and release of convicts in 2002 gang-rape case.
The court had, on October 18, said the Gujarat government's reply to petitions challenging the remission is very bulky, wherein a series of judgments have been quoted but factual statements are missing.
Bilkis Bano case: A bench of justices Ajay Rastogi and CT Ravikumar tagged the matter with the main petition and said it would be heard along with it.
Bilkis Bano was 21 years old and five-month pregnant when she was gang-raped while fleeing the riots that broke out after the Godhra train burning incident. Her three-year-old daughter was among the seven family members killed.
In an affidavit, the state Home Department's Under Secretary said: "I say that the state government considered all the opinions and decided to release 11 prisoners since they have completed 14 years and above in prisons and their behaviour was found to be good."
Bilkis Bano case: Eleven convicts were released from a jail in Godhra on August 15 after they were granted remission by the Gujarat government. The activists will march under the banner of 'Hindu Muslim Ekta Samiti' and cover the 180-kilometre distance between September 26 and October 4.
Bilkis Bano case: The bureaucrats asked the CJI to rescind the order of remission passed by the Gujarat government and send the 11 persons convicted of gangrape and murder back to jail to serve out their life sentence.
Bilkis Bano case: Bilkis Bano was gang-raped in Gujarat's Randhikpur village and seven members of her family, including her three-year-old daughter, were killed on March 3, 2002.
The remission and consequent release of 11 convicts on August 15 this year from the Godhra sub-jail under the Gujarat government's remission policy has sparked a debate on the issue of such relief in heinous cases.
Bilkis Bano case: Replying to a discussion in the Legislative Council on an incident in the Bhandara district where a 35-year-old woman was sexually assaulted allegedly by three people, Fadnavis said there was no reason to raise the Bilkis Bano issue in the House.
Bilkis Bano, who was pregnant at the time, was gangraped and her three-year-old daughter Saleha was among 14 killed by a mob on March 3, 2002.
BJP MLA Rauliji, incidentally, is part of the two-person BJP team who were part of the Gujarat government panel that unanimously decided to release the rapists.
Bilkis Bano case: The 11 convicts walked out of the Godhra sub-jail on Monday after the BJP government in Gujarat allowed their release under its remission policy.
The BJP government in Gujarat released all the 11 people convicted for the rape of a pregnant Bilkis Bano and murder of seven of her family members during the 2002 Gujarat riots, under its remission policy.
Bilkis Bano was 21 years old and five months pregnant when she was gang raped while fleeing the violence that broke out post the Sabarmati train burning incident in Godhra. Seven members of her family were killed during the 2002 post-Godhra riots.
The top court has also ordered the state government to give her a job and accommodation.
She tendered her resignation to President Ram Nath Kovind and sent a copy of it to Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi last night, official sources said on Saturday.
A Bench of Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna directed the Gujarat Government to provide Bilkis Bano, a government job and accommodation as per rules.
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