New Delhi: Compassion and sympathy have no role to play where rule of law is required to be enforced, the Supreme Court said on Monday while refusing to accept the plea of protection of the liberty of the convicts in the Bilkis Bano case and let them remain out of prison. The top court said…
NEW DELHI: Bilkis Bano, whose rapists will be sent back to prison after the Supreme Court quashed the remission granted to them on Monday, said that she smiled for the first time in over a year and a half.Earlier today, the apex court criticized the Gujarat government’s decision, saying that it lacked proper consideration, as…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today cancelled the Gujarat government’s decision to grant release to 11 men who raped Bilkis Bano and killed her child and other family members in 2002. The convicts walked free on Independence Day in 2022 under an outdated remission policy of the Gujarat government, setting off a huge political controversy….
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday quashed the Gujarat government’s decision to grant remission to 11 convicts in the case of the gangrape of Bilkis Bano and the murder of seven family members during the 2002 riots in the state.Court’s DecisionA bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan deemed the PIL challenging…
