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The one bench of Justice Sanjiv Khanna merely refused to entertain the plea of the two convicted rapists citing it became as soon as no longer ‘maintainable’
The Indian Supreme Court on Friday (Jul 19) pushed aside the bail plea filed by two of 11 convicts within the Bilkis Bano gangrape case. Radheyshyam Bhagwandas and Rajubhai Babulal, convicted of raping Bano and killing her family in each place in the 2022 Gujarat riots, had moved the petition indirectly court docket.
Alternatively, the court docket and its single bench of Justice Sanjiv Khanna merely refused to entertain the plea citing it became as soon as no longer ‘maintainable’.
“What is that this plea… how is it even maintainable? Completely misconceived. How carry out we sit on allure in PIL (public hobby litigation),” declared Justice Sanjiv Khanna.
“There are two judgments. Earlier judgment (the Can also ruling) became as soon as opinion to be within the 2d (the January verdict) below Article 32 (which affords every individual the moral to transfer the Supreme Court for enforcement of indispensable rights). We’re no longer sitting in allure,” the court docket added.
Notably, each and each convicts had moved to the SC in March, contending that its January 8 verdict cancelling remission of their sentence became as soon as “within the enamel” of a 2002 Structure bench disclose.
Who is Bilkis Bano?
Bilkis Bano became as soon as a resident of the western Indian snort, who similar to a big selection of others, became as soon as trying to cruise the snort in each place in the 2002 Gujarat riots. She became as soon as handiest 21 years extinct and five months pregnant when she became as soon as gang-raped whereas trying to receive some distance from her village.
She became as soon as hiding in a field with a whole lot of assorted relatives and her three-yr-extinct daughter on March 3, 2002, after they were attacked by a mob of 20-30 men with sickles, swords, and clubs. As many as 14 members of her family died within the assault, including her itsy-bitsy one however Bano survived as she misplaced consciousness and her attackers left, believing she became as soon as dumb.
Ensuing from the grim nature of the crime and the indignation that ensued, the SC ordered a CBI investigation, and 11 of Bilkis Bano’s assailants were convicted and sentenced to existence imprisonment for the substandard act.
Alternatively, on Independence Day (August 15) in 2022, the Gujarat executive, below its remission programme, released the 11 rapists. Their open triggered a wave of condemnation from the opposition, activists as neatly as the civil society.
(With inputs from agencies)
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