New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear a plea of Bilkis Bano challenging the premature release of 11 convicts, who had gang-raped her and murdered her family members during the 2002 Godhra riots.
A bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and Bela Trivedi will hear the matter. Bilkis Bano has filed a review plea against the May order of the Supreme Court which allowed the Gujarat government to apply the 1992 remission Rules.
Bilkis said that even being the victim of the crime, she had no clue about any such process of remission or premature release initiated. 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 pleas were filed by the National Federation of Indian Women, whose General Secretary is Annie Raja, Member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Subhashini Ali, journalist Revati Laul, social activist and professor Roop Rekha Verma and TMC MP Mahua Moitra.
Gujarat government in its affidavit had defended remission granted to convicts saying they completed 14 years of sentence in prison and their "behaviour was found to be good".
The State government said it has considered the cases of all 11 convicts as per the policy of 1992 and remission was granted on August 10, 2022, and the Central government also approved the ore-mature release of convicts. (ANI)
