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Supreme Court dismisses Bilkis Bano’s plea searching for assessment of its earlier order

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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea filed by Bilkis Bano, searching for a assessment of its earlier order by which it had requested the Gujarat authorities to contemplate the petitions for remission of sentences of 11 convicts within the gang-rape case.

Bano was gang-raped and 7 members of her household had been killed in the course of the 2002 Gujarat riots.

According to procedures, assessment pleas towards apex courtroom judgments are determined in chambers by circulation by the judges who had been a part of the judgment beneath assessment.

The assessment plea got here up for in-chamber consideration on December 13 earlier than 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,” learn a communication despatched to Bano’s counsel Shobha Gupta by the apex courtroom’s assistant registrar.

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The gang-rape survivor had sought a assessment of the highest courtroom’s May 13 order on a plea moved by a convict.

The prime courtroom had requested the state authorities to contemplate the plea for a untimely launch of the convicts by way of its coverage of July 9, 1992 about deciding a remission petition inside a interval of two months.

All the 11 convicts had been granted remission by the Gujarat authorities and launched on August 15.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea filed by Bilkis Bano, searching for a assessment of its earlier order by which it had requested the Gujarat authorities to contemplate the petitions for remission of sentences of 11 convicts within the gang-rape case.

Bano was gang-raped and 7 members of her household had been killed in the course of the 2002 Gujarat riots.

According to procedures, assessment pleas towards apex courtroom judgments are determined in chambers by circulation by the judges who had been a part of the judgment beneath assessment.

The assessment plea got here up for in-chamber consideration on December 13 earlier than 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,” learn a communication despatched to Bano’s counsel Shobha Gupta by the apex courtroom’s assistant registrar.

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

The gang-rape survivor had sought a assessment of the highest courtroom’s May 13 order on a plea moved by a convict.

The prime courtroom had requested the state authorities to contemplate the plea for a untimely launch of the convicts by way of its coverage of July 9, 1992 about deciding a remission petition inside a interval of two months.

All the 11 convicts had been granted remission by the Gujarat authorities and launched on August 15.