New Delhi: The Gujarat authorities on Tuesday filed a overview petition within the Supreme Court docket, looking for the expunction of sure remarks made towards it for the untimely launch of the 11 convicts within the Bilkis Bano case, reported ANI.
Earlier on Monday, the apex courtroom slammed the state authorities for granting remission to the convicts and stated the Gujarat authorities was “complicit and acted in tandem with one of many convicts.”
The Supreme Court docket in January had overturned the Gujarat authorities’s resolution to grant early launch to 11 convicts within the 2002 gang rape of Bilkis Bano and the homicide of seven of her members of the family throughout the communal riots within the state.
Bilkis Bano case: Gujarat authorities strikes Supreme Court docket and recordsdata overview petition looking for to expunge sure remarks made towards the federal government for its conduct with regard to the untimely launch of the 11 convicts. pic.twitter.com/9pbpjvkZQe
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Whereas listening to the case on Monday, a bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan stated it failed to grasp why the state of Gujarat didn’t file a overview petition towards the judgment dated Could 13, 2022, which directed the Gujarat authorities to contemplate the plea of a convict for untimely launch as per the State coverage of July 9, 1992, PTI reported.
In 1992, the Gujarat authorities launched a brand new remission coverage. In accordance with this coverage, requests from convicts sentenced to life imprisonment, who had accomplished no less than 14 years of their sentence, could possibly be reviewed. Nevertheless, favorable opinions from the Jail Advisory Board had been required for such requests to be thought-about.
“Benefiting from the Could 13, 2022 order of this courtroom, different convicts additionally filed remission purposes and the Gujarat authorities handed remission orders. Gujarat was complicit and acted in tandem with respondent No. 3 (convict Radheshyam Shah) on this case. This courtroom was misled by suppressing information. Use of energy by Gujarat was solely an usurpation of energy by the State,” the bench had stated, as per the PTI report.
The Supreme Court docket additionally invalidated a earlier order issued by one other bench on Could 13, 2022, directing the Gujarat authorities to overview a remission plea from one of many convicts. The courtroom decided that the order was obtained by “taking part in fraud on the courtroom” and by suppressing materials information.
“If the convicts can circumvent the implications of their conviction, peace and tranquillity within the society will likely be lowered to a chimaera. It’s the obligation of this Court docket to appropriate arbitrary orders on the earliest and to retain the inspiration of belief of the general public,” the courtroom stated, reported PTI.