Don’t point out once more and once more: SC refuses submissions searching for early establishing of bench to listen to Bilkis’ plea
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain submissions searching for an early establishing of a recent bench to listen to Bilkis Bano’s plea difficult the remission of sentence of 11 convicts by the Gujarat authorities in her gang-rape case.
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha was urged by lawyer Shobha Gupta, showing for Bano, that one other bench was wanted to be constituted to listen to the case.
“The writ (petition) will be listed. Please, do not keep mentioning the same thing again and again. It is very irritating,” the CJI stated.
Supreme Court choose Bela M Trivedi on Tuesday recused herself from listening to a plea filed by Bano.
The CJI will now must arrange a recent bench, to which Justice Trivedi is not going to be a component, to listen to Bano’s case.
All 11 convicts have been granted remission by the state authorities and launched on August 15 this yr.
Bilkis Bano was 21 years previous and 5 months pregnant when she was gang-raped whereas fleeing the riots that broke out after the Godhra practice burning incident. Her three-year-old daughter was amongst seven members of the family killed at the moment.
The investigation within the case was handed over to the CBI and the trial was transferred to a Maharashtra courtroom by the Supreme Court.
A particular CBI courtroom in Mumbai had on January 21, 2008, sentenced the 11 to life imprisonment. Their conviction was later upheld by the Bombay High Court and the Supreme Court.
The 11 males convicted within the case walked out of the Godhra sub-jail on August 15 after the Gujarat authorities allowed their launch underneath its remission coverage. They had accomplished greater than 15 years in jail.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain submissions searching for an early establishing of a recent bench to listen to Bilkis Bano’s plea difficult the remission of sentence of 11 convicts by the Gujarat authorities in her gang-rape case.
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha was urged by lawyer Shobha Gupta, showing for Bano, that one other bench was wanted to be constituted to listen to the case.
“The writ (petition) will be listed. Please, do not keep mentioning the same thing again and again. It is very irritating,” the CJI stated.
Supreme Court choose Bela M Trivedi on Tuesday recused herself from listening to a plea filed by Bano.
The CJI will now must arrange a recent bench, to which Justice Trivedi is not going to be a component, to listen to Bano’s case.
All 11 convicts have been granted remission by the state authorities and launched on August 15 this yr.
Bilkis Bano was 21 years previous and 5 months pregnant when she was gang-raped whereas fleeing the riots that broke out after the Godhra practice burning incident. Her three-year-old daughter was amongst seven members of the family killed at the moment.
The investigation within the case was handed over to the CBI and the trial was transferred to a Maharashtra courtroom by the Supreme Court.
A particular CBI courtroom in Mumbai had on January 21, 2008, sentenced the 11 to life imprisonment. Their conviction was later upheld by the Bombay High Court and the Supreme Court.
The 11 males convicted within the case walked out of the Godhra sub-jail on August 15 after the Gujarat authorities allowed their launch underneath its remission coverage. They had accomplished greater than 15 years in jail.
