"The reasons cited by applicants to seek postponement of surrender and report back to jail have no merit in as much as those reasons in no way prevent them from complying with our directions. Hence, the miscellaneous applications are dismissed. Pending applications, if any, also stand dispos
Hailing the Supreme Court verdict, reversing the remission of sentences of the accused in the Bilkis Bano case, BRS leader and MLC K Kavitha on Tuesday said the ruling has sent out the message that women in the country will be "safe, secure and protected".
The Supreme Court held that the judgement of May 13, 2022 (which directed the Gujarat government to consider remission of convict) was obtained by "playing fraud" on the court and by suppressing material facts.
A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan while reserving its order on a batch of pleas filed against the remission granted to 11 convicts also asked the government of Centre and Gujarat to submit original records by October 16.
The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its order on a batch of pleas filed against the remission granted to 11 convicts who had gang-raped Bilkis Bano and murdered her family members during the 2002 Godhra riots.
The ruling came during the hearing of three petitions filed by convicts who challenged the withholding of remissions to them by the authorities of respective prisons in the light of amendments made in the Control of Narcotics Substance Act (CNSA), 1997, last year.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday while hearing pleas against the pre-mature release of 11 convicts who had gang-raped Bilkis Bano and murdered her family members during the 2002 Godhra riots, asked whether the right of a convict to seek remission of his sentence of imprisonment comes under any
The Supreme Court on Tuesday referred Vikas Yadav's plea seeking consideration for remission to a three-judge bench and listed the matter for October 3 for further hearing.
Additional Solicitor General SV Raju appearing for the Gujarat government reiterated before Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan that all necessary compliances had been done before granting the remission.
The Supreme Court on Thursday while hearing a plea filed by Bilkis Bano against the release of 11 convicts who had gang-raped her and murdered her family members during the 2002 Godhra riots, queried the Gujarat and Central governments about the selective application of the pre-mature releas