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Supreme Court Dismisses Bail Plea of Bilkis Bano Case Convicts

Supreme Court Dismisses Bail Plea of Bilkis Bano Case Convicts

19 Jul 2024

The Supreme Court on Friday declined to entertain a petition from two convicts in the Bilkis Bano case seeking interim bail. The petition was filed after their early release was canceled, and they were re-imprisoned following the apex court's January 8 verdict. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and PV...

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Bilkis Bano case: SC denies to extend time for surrender of 11 convicts

Bilkis Bano case: SC denies to extend time for surrender of 11 convicts

19 Jan 2024

The Supreme Court denied the convicts' requests on Friday to extend their deadline for turning themselves in to jail officials in the Bilkis Bano case. Judges BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan's bench dismissed the applications, ruling that the justifications given by the applicants to request a postponement of surrender and...

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Bilkis Bano Case: Supreme Court to Hear Petitions of Convicts Seeking More Time to Surrender

Bilkis Bano Case: Supreme Court to Hear Petitions of Convicts Seeking More Time to Surrender

18 Jan 2024

The Supreme Court has agreed to list the petitions filed by three convicts in the Bilkis Bano case who are seeking more time to surrender. This move comes in response to the earlier cancellation of the order that granted them early release, and they were directed to surrender by January...

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Bilkis Bano case: SC strikes down Gujarat government’s remission order of 11 convicts, demands their surrender

Bilkis Bano case: SC strikes down Gujarat government’s remission order of 11 convicts, demands their surrender

08 Jan 2024

The Gujarat government's order to remit 11 convicts who had gangraped Bilkis Bano and killed her family members during the 2002 Godhra riots was overturned by the Supreme Court on Monday. Judges BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan's bench overturned the Gujarat government's remission order, which had allowed convicts to be...

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Bilkis Bano case: Supreme Court quashes Gujarat government’s remission order

Bilkis Bano case: Supreme Court quashes Gujarat government’s remission order

08 Jan 2024

The Gujarat government's decision to give remission to 11 convicts in the case of Bilkis Bano's gang rape and the murder of seven of her family members during the 2002 Gujarat riots was overturned by the Supreme Court on Monday. The Supreme Court ruled that "playing fraud" on the court...

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Supreme Court rejects remission for all 11 convicts, all 11 convicts return to jail

Supreme Court rejects remission for all 11 convicts, all 11 convicts return to jail

08 Jan 2024

The Supreme Court on Monday (8 January 2023) will rule on the petitions contesting the Gujarat government's decision to commute the sentences of eleven people found guilty of raping Bilkis Bano and killing fourteen of her family members during the 2002 communal riots. Bilkis Bano herself has filed one of these...

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Unequals cannot be treated equally, says SC while questioning Bilkis Bano rapists’ release

Unequals cannot be treated equally, says SC while questioning Bilkis Bano rapists’ release

18 Apr 2023

The Centre and the Gujarat government informed the Supreme Court on Tuesday that they may file a petition seeking a review of its 27March order requiring them to provide original files on the grant of remission to the Bilkis Bano convicts. The paroles granted to 11 convicts during their incarceration...

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Bilkis Bano case convict shares stage with BJP MP and MLA at government event

Bilkis Bano case convict shares stage with BJP MP and MLA at government event

27 Mar 2023

At a government function conducted at Limkheda in the Dahod district of the state, one of the prisoners in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gangrape and murder of her family members case—freed last year under Gujarat's remission policy—shared the stage with BJP MP Jaswant Bhabhor and his MLA brother Shailesh Bhabhor....

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Bilkis Bano case: SC to form bench to hear plea against early release of 11 convicts

Bilkis Bano case: SC to form bench to hear plea against early release of 11 convicts

22 Mar 2023

The Supreme Court on Wednesday announced that it will constitute a bench to hear a petition objecting to the premature release of 11 convicts who had gang-raped Bilkis Bano and killed her family members during the 2002 Godhra riots. A bench presided over by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud said, "I...

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Bilkis Bano Case: Justice Bela Trivedi Refrains From Hearing PILs

Bilkis Bano Case: Justice Bela Trivedi Refrains From Hearing PILs

04 Jan 2023

Justice Bela M. Trivedi, a judge on the Supreme Court, withdrew on Wednesday from hearing appeals contesting the early release of 11 convicts who had gang-raped Bilkis Bano and killed her family members during the 2002 Godhra riots. The matter was directed to be listed before the bench, of which...

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