After spending 16 days in jail put up give up on January 21, a convict in Bilkis Bano’s gang rape case was granted Parole from the Gujarat Excessive Court docket for 5 days as a result of loss of life of his father-in-law.
As directed by the Supreme Court docket, the eleven convicts within the Bilkis Bano case surrendered on the Godhra jail on the evening of January 21.
The convict Pradipbhai Ramamlal Modiya had submitted the loss of life certificates within the excessive court docket searching for parole for 30 days. Nevertheless, the excessive court docket solely granted 5 days of parole.
Justice MR Mengdey of the Gujarat Excessive Court docket granted parole to Modiya after inspecting the loss of life certificates and the assertion of the jail officer.
Earlier, the Supreme Court docket on January 19 dismissed the functions filed by all of the eleven Bilkis Bano case convicts searching for extension in time to give up earlier than jail authorities.
On January 8, the highest court docket quashed remission granted to 11 convicts in Bilkis Bano’s gang-rape case and nullified its Might 2022 judgement that had directed the Gujarat Authorities to think about the remission functions of the convicts. The court docket held that not solely the judgment was “dangerous in legislation” but additionally obtained by “fraud” as one of many petitioners (additionally a convict) had suppressed essential details and made deceptive statements. The court docket had directed all of the 11 convicts to report again to involved jail authorities inside two weeks.
The court docket additionally held that the writ petition that challenged the Gujarat authorities’s energy to grant remission was maintainable because the state of Gujarat usurped the powers of state of Maharashtra whereas granting remission.
Bilkis Bano Rasool was 21-years-old and 5 months pregnant when she was gang-raped in the course of the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat. Seven members of her household together with her three-year-old daughter had been killed within the riots.
In 2008, all of the 11 convicts had been awarded life imprisonment by a particular court docket in Mumbai and the choice was upheld by a division bench of the Bombay Excessive Court docket in 2017.