All 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case surrendered late Sunday night at Godhra sub jail in Gujarat’s Panchmahal district in keeping with the deadline imposed by the Supreme Court. “All 11 convicts have surrendered before jail authorities late Sunday night. They reached jail before midnight of January 21, which was the deadline set for …
News India Close to deadline, Bilkis Bano case convicts surrender, reach Godhra jail The Bilkis Bano case convicts had been granted remission and premature release by the Gujarat government in August 2022, which the SC annulled on January 8. The convicts arrived at the Godhra sub-jail in Panchmahal district shortly before midnight on Sunday. (Photo: …
Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud and judges of the Supreme Court held a Full Court meeting on Friday to designate 56 lawyers as senior advocates. Eleven of the advocates-on-record and advocates designated senior advocates by the Supreme Court are women, including Shobha Gupta, who successfully appeared for Bilkis Bano against the remission granted by …
Supreme Court, Bilkis Bano One of the convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang rape case, Govindhbhai Nai, has moved the Supreme Court seeking four weeks time to surrender before the concerned jail authorities. The Supreme Court had on January 8 ordered Nai and ten other convicts to surrender before the jail authorities within two weeks. …
The Supreme Court has struck down the Gujarat government’s remission orders that allowed the early release of 11 men convicted in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case of 2002. A Bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan on Monday (January 8) said the Gujarat government’s August 10, 2022 decision to remit the convicts’ sentences …
Bilkis Bano case: The Supreme Court of India on Monday quashed the Gujarat government’s decision to grant remission and early release to 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano rape case. The decision was hailed by many political leaders including Rahul Gandhi who called it a “victory of justice”. Rahul Gandhi took to microblogging site X …
The Supreme Court on Monday struck down the remission granted by the Gujarat government to 11 convicts, who are out of jail, in the Bilkis Bano case and also directed them to report to jail authorities within two weeks. A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan said the Gujarat Government had no …
The Supreme Court on Monday quashed the Gujarat government’s decision to grant remission to 11 convicts in the case of gangrape of Bilkis Bano and the murder of seven of her family members during the 2002 Gujarat riots. The court also rejected the prayer of the convicts to protect their liberty, and directed them to …