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  • Maha govt should not give relief to 11 convicts: Sharad Pawar

    Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar on Tuesday said that the Maharashtra government should not give any relief to the 11 convicts of Bilkis Bano case.

    “The Maharashtra government should not give any relief. This was a serious and heinous crime. Seven people died. What this woman (Bilkis) suffered, the kind of atrocities she had to endure… She had seven of her relatives killed,” Sharad Pawar said while reacting to Monday’s Supreme Court order in the Bilkis Bano case.

    Pawar urged the Maharashtra government to take this case ‘seriously’. “I feel the Maharashtra government would not ignore the seriousness of the case and the heinous manner in which the crime was committed… What the Supreme Court has said has to be done.”

    When asked whether the Maharashtra government, which is also ruled by BJP, could follow Gujarat’s example and again grant remission to the convicts, Pawar said, “While the government has taken political decisions, this time I believe they will take this case seriously.” Pawar, however, appealed to both the chief minister and deputy chief minister (Devendra Fadnavis) “to take this case seriously”.

    “I have just one suggestion to the chief minister and the deputy chief minister. The crime against the woman cannot be ignored and the state should go by the SC verdict in the case. We expect that there should be no political bias in the decision the state government would take… A message should be sent to those indulging in atrocities that such kind of crimes will not be tolerated by society, the political system and the judiciary,” Pawar said.The NCP president lauded the SC decision saying that the people were happy with the verdict.

  • Supreme Court dismisses Bilkis Bano’s plea seeking review of its earlier order

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea filed by Bilkis Bano, seeking a review of its earlier order by which it had asked the Gujarat government to consider the petitions for remission of sentences of 11 convicts in the gang-rape case.

    Bano was gang-raped and seven members of her family were killed during the 2002 Gujarat riots.

    According to procedures, review pleas against apex court judgments are decided in chambers by circulation by the judges who were part of the judgment under review.

    The review plea came up for in-chamber consideration on December 13 before a bench of justices Ajay Rastogi and Vikram Nath.

    “I am directed to inform you that the review petition above mentioned filed in Supreme Court was dismissed by the court on December 13, 2022,” read a communication sent to Bano’s counsel Shobha Gupta by the apex court’s assistant registrar.

    ALSO READ| All 11 Bilkis Bano rape convicts walk out of jail

    The gang-rape survivor had sought a review of the top court’s May 13 order on a plea moved by a convict.

    The top court had asked the state government to consider the plea for a premature release of the convicts in terms of its policy of July 9, 1992 about deciding a remission petition within a period of two months.

    All the 11 convicts were granted remission by the Gujarat government and released on August 15.

    NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea filed by Bilkis Bano, seeking a review of its earlier order by which it had asked the Gujarat government to consider the petitions for remission of sentences of 11 convicts in the gang-rape case.

    Bano was gang-raped and seven members of her family were killed during the 2002 Gujarat riots.

    According to procedures, review pleas against apex court judgments are decided in chambers by circulation by the judges who were part of the judgment under review.

    The review plea came up for in-chamber consideration on December 13 before a bench of justices Ajay Rastogi and Vikram Nath.

    “I am directed to inform you that the review petition above mentioned filed in Supreme Court was dismissed by the court on December 13, 2022,” read a communication sent to Bano’s counsel Shobha Gupta by the apex court’s assistant registrar.

    ALSO READ| All 11 Bilkis Bano rape convicts walk out of jail

    The gang-rape survivor had sought a review of the top court’s May 13 order on a plea moved by a convict.

    The top court had asked the state government to consider the plea for a premature release of the convicts in terms of its policy of July 9, 1992 about deciding a remission petition within a period of two months.

    All the 11 convicts were granted remission by the Gujarat government and released on August 15.

  • Will fight again, against what is wrong: Bilkis Bano on remission given to her rapists

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: “I will stand and fight again, against what is wrong and for what is right,” said Bilkis Bano, who has moved the Supreme Court challenging the remission and release of 11 convicts in the 2002 case related to her gangrape and murder of seven members of her family.

    Bano was 21 years old and five-month pregnant when she was gangraped while fleeing the 2002 Gujarat riots that broke out after the Godhra train burning incident.

    Her three-year-old daughter was among the seven family members killed.

    In her two separate petitions, she has challenged the premature release of the convicts by the Gujarat government on August 15, saying it has “shaken the conscience of society”.

    In a statement, issued on Thursday, she said, “The decision to once again stand up and knock on the doors of justice was not easy for me. For a long time, after the men who destroyed my entire family and my life were released, I was simply numb. I was paralysed with shock and with fear for my children, my daughters, and above all, paralysed by loss of hope.”

    She added, “But, the spaces of my silence were filled with other voices; voices of support from different parts of the country that have given me hope in the face of unimaginable despair; and made me feel less alone in my pain. I cannot express in words what this support has meant to me.”

    ALSO READ | Bilkis Bano case: Convicts released for good behaviour, Gujarat govt to SC

    Bano said the support to her cause from different parts of the country has helped her in rekindling her faith in humanity and renewed her courage to believe again in the idea of justice.

    “So, I will stand and fight again, against what is wrong and for what is right. I do this today for myself, for my children, and for women everywhere”, she said.

    NEW DELHI: “I will stand and fight again, against what is wrong and for what is right,” said Bilkis Bano, who has moved the Supreme Court challenging the remission and release of 11 convicts in the 2002 case related to her gangrape and murder of seven members of her family.

    Bano was 21 years old and five-month pregnant when she was gangraped while fleeing the 2002 Gujarat riots that broke out after the Godhra train burning incident.

    Her three-year-old daughter was among the seven family members killed.

    In her two separate petitions, she has challenged the premature release of the convicts by the Gujarat government on August 15, saying it has “shaken the conscience of society”.

    In a statement, issued on Thursday, she said, “The decision to once again stand up and knock on the doors of justice was not easy for me. For a long time, after the men who destroyed my entire family and my life were released, I was simply numb. I was paralysed with shock and with fear for my children, my daughters, and above all, paralysed by loss of hope.”

    She added, “But, the spaces of my silence were filled with other voices; voices of support from different parts of the country that have given me hope in the face of unimaginable despair; and made me feel less alone in my pain. I cannot express in words what this support has meant to me.”

    ALSO READ | Bilkis Bano case: Convicts released for good behaviour, Gujarat govt to SC

    Bano said the support to her cause from different parts of the country has helped her in rekindling her faith in humanity and renewed her courage to believe again in the idea of justice.

    “So, I will stand and fight again, against what is wrong and for what is right. I do this today for myself, for my children, and for women everywhere”, she said.