{"id":8590,"date":"2024-01-08T08:15:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T08:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/?p=8590"},"modified":"2024-01-08T08:15:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T08:15:02","slug":"bilkis-bano-case-sc-quashes-gujarat-govts-remission-order-11-convicts-to-return-to-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/bilkis-bano-case-sc-quashes-gujarat-govts-remission-order-11-convicts-to-return-to-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Bilkis Bano Case | SC Quashes Gujarat Govt\u2019s Remission Order, 11 Convicts To Return To Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Delhi, Jan 8: The\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Gujarat<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>government’s\u00a0<\/span><\/span>decision\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>provide\u00a0<\/span><\/span>remission\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span><\/span>11\u00a0<\/span><\/span>prisoners\u00a0<\/span><\/span>in\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>case\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>gangraping\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Bilkis\u00a0<\/span>Bano\u00a0<\/span><\/span>and\u00a0<\/span><\/span>killing\u00a0<\/span><\/span>seven\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>her\u00a0<\/span>family\u00a0<\/span>members\u00a0<\/span><\/span>during\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>2002\u00a0<\/span><\/span>state\u00a0<\/span><\/span>riots\u00a0<\/span><\/span>was\u00a0<\/span>overturned\u00a0<\/span><\/span>by\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>Supreme\u00a0<\/span><\/a>Court<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>on\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Monday.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The\u00a0<\/span>court\u00a0<\/span><\/span>claimed\u00a0<\/span><\/span>that\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>decisions\u00a0<\/span><\/span>were\u00a0<\/span><\/span>“stereotypical”\u00a0<\/span><\/span>and\u00a0<\/span>made\u00a0<\/span><\/span>without\u00a0<\/span><\/span>consideration\u00a0<\/span>for\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>facts.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>The\u00a0<\/span>prisoners\u00a0<\/span><\/span>were\u00a0<\/span>given\u00a0<\/span><\/span>a\u00a0<\/span><\/span>two-week\u00a0<\/span><\/span>deadline\u00a0<\/span><\/span>by\u00a0<\/span><\/span>a\u00a0<\/span>bench\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Justices\u00a0<\/span><\/span>B\u00a0<\/span><\/span>V\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Nagarathna\u00a0<\/span><\/span>and\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Ujjal\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Bhuyan\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>turn\u00a0<\/span><\/span>themselves\u00a0<\/span>in\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>jail\u00a0<\/span><\/span>administration<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>The\u00a0<\/span>bench\u00a0<\/span><\/span>stated\u00a0<\/span>that\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>Gujarati\u00a0<\/span>government\u00a0<\/span><\/span>was\u00a0<\/span>not\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>right\u00a0<\/span><\/span>government\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>issue\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>remission\u00a0<\/span><\/span>order,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>holding\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>PIL\u00a0<\/span><\/span>contesting\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>remission\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>be\u00a0<\/span><\/span>maintainable.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>The\u00a0<\/span>supreme\u00a0<\/span>court\u00a0<\/span><\/span>made\u00a0<\/span>it\u00a0<\/span><\/span>clear\u00a0<\/span>that\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>State\u00a0<\/span><\/span>has\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>authority\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>choose\u00a0<\/span><\/span>whether\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>grant\u00a0<\/span><\/span>a\u00a0<\/span><\/span>convict’s\u00a0<\/span><\/span>remission\u00a0<\/span><\/span>plea\u00a0<\/span><\/span>once\u00a0<\/span><\/span>an\u00a0<\/span>offender\u00a0<\/span><\/span>is\u00a0<\/span>prosecuted\u00a0<\/span><\/span>and\u00a0<\/span><\/span>sentenced.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Maharashtra\u00a0<\/span><\/span>conducted\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>trials\u00a0<\/span><\/span>for\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>guilty.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>We\u00a0<\/span><\/span>didn’t\u00a0<\/span>have\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>discuss\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>other\u00a0<\/span><\/span>matters.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>However,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>we\u00a0<\/span>have\u00a0<\/span><\/span>for\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>sake\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>completion.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>The\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Gujarat\u00a0<\/span><\/span>administration\u00a0<\/span><\/span>has\u00a0<\/span>violated\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>rule\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span>law\u00a0<\/span><\/span>by\u00a0<\/span><\/span>usurping\u00a0<\/span><\/span>and\u00a0<\/span><\/span>abusing\u00a0<\/span><\/span>its\u00a0<\/span>authority\u00a0<\/span><\/span>that\u00a0<\/span><\/span>was\u00a0<\/span>not\u00a0<\/span>granted\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span><\/span>it.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>The\u00a0<\/span>bench\u00a0<\/span><\/span>declared\u00a0<\/span><\/span>that\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>remission\u00a0<\/span><\/span>orders\u00a0<\/span><\/span>should\u00a0<\/span>be\u00a0<\/span><\/span>annulled\u00a0<\/span><\/span>on\u00a0<\/span><\/span>that\u00a0<\/span>basis\u00a0<\/span><\/span>as\u00a0<\/span>well.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The\u00a0<\/span>ruling\u00a0<\/span><\/span>took\u00a0<\/span><\/span>more\u00a0<\/span>than\u00a0<\/span>a\u00a0<\/span>hundred\u00a0<\/span><\/span>pages\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>complete.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>The\u00a0<\/span>top\u00a0<\/span>court\u00a0<\/span><\/span>further\u00a0<\/span><\/span>declared\u00a0<\/span><\/span>as\u00a0<\/span><\/span>“nullity”\u00a0<\/span><\/span>a\u00a0<\/span>ruling\u00a0<\/span><\/span>from\u00a0<\/span><\/span>a\u00a0<\/span>different\u00a0<\/span><\/span>bench\u00a0<\/span><\/span>dated\u00a0<\/span><\/span>May\u00a0<\/span>13,\u00a0<\/span>2022,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>which\u00a0<\/span><\/span>requested\u00a0<\/span><\/span>that\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>Gujarat\u00a0<\/span>government\u00a0<\/span><\/span>take\u00a0<\/span><\/span>into\u00a0<\/span>account\u00a0<\/span><\/span>convicts’\u00a0<\/span><\/span>pleas\u00a0<\/span><\/span>for\u00a0<\/span><\/span>remission\u00a0<\/span><\/span>because\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>pleas\u00a0<\/span><\/span>were\u00a0<\/span>obtained\u00a0<\/span><\/span>by\u00a0<\/span><\/span>“playing\u00a0<\/span><\/span>fraud\u00a0<\/span><\/span>on\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>court”\u00a0<\/span><\/span>and\u00a0<\/span>by\u00a0<\/span><\/span>omitting\u00a0<\/span><\/span>important\u00a0<\/span>information.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>It\u00a0<\/span><\/span>said\u00a0<\/span>that\u00a0<\/span><\/span>this\u00a0<\/span>was\u00a0<\/span><\/span>a\u00a0<\/span>textbook\u00a0<\/span><\/span>instance\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>court’s\u00a0<\/span><\/span>order\u00a0<\/span><\/span>being\u00a0<\/span>utilised\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>subvert\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>rule\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span>law\u00a0<\/span><\/span>by\u00a0<\/span>giving\u00a0<\/span><\/span>remission.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>The\u00a0<\/span>supreme\u00a0<\/span>court\u00a0<\/span><\/span>declared\u00a0<\/span><\/span>that\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>takeover\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span>power\u00a0<\/span><\/span>and\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>misuse\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>legal\u00a0<\/span>system\u00a0<\/span><\/span>on\u00a0<\/span><\/span>May\u00a0<\/span>13,\u00a0<\/span>2022,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>had\u00a0<\/span>violated\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>rule\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>law.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>The\u00a0<\/span>bench\u00a0<\/span><\/span>declared,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>“We\u00a0<\/span><\/span>strike\u00a0<\/span><\/span>down\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>remission\u00a0<\/span><\/span>orders\u00a0<\/span><\/span>on\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>ground\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Gujarat\u00a0<\/span><\/span>government’s\u00a0<\/span><\/span>usurpation\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>power.”<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>On\u00a0<\/span><\/span>October\u00a0<\/span>12\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>last\u00a0<\/span>year,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>following\u00a0<\/span><\/span>an\u00a0<\/span><\/span>11-day\u00a0<\/span><\/span>hearing\u00a0<\/span><\/span>on\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>petitions,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>including\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Bano’s,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>supreme\u00a0<\/span>court\u00a0<\/span><\/span>had\u00a0<\/span>reserved\u00a0<\/span><\/span>its\u00a0<\/span>decision.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>The\u00a0<\/span>top\u00a0<\/span>court\u00a0<\/span><\/span>reserved\u00a0<\/span><\/span>its\u00a0<\/span>decision,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>but\u00a0<\/span>it\u00a0<\/span><\/span>did\u00a0<\/span>order\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>Centre\u00a0<\/span><\/span>and\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>Gujarat\u00a0<\/span>government\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>provide\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>original\u00a0<\/span>documentation\u00a0<\/span><\/span>pertaining\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>11\u00a0<\/span><\/span>convicts’\u00a0<\/span><\/span>sentence\u00a0<\/span><\/span>remission\u00a0<\/span><\/span>by\u00a0<\/span><\/span>October\u00a0<\/span>16.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>During\u00a0<\/span><\/span>its\u00a0<\/span><\/span>September\u00a0<\/span>2018\u00a0<\/span><\/span>hearing,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>Supreme\u00a0<\/span>Court\u00a0<\/span><\/span>questioned\u00a0<\/span><\/span>whether\u00a0<\/span><\/span>prisoners\u00a0<\/span><\/span>had\u00a0<\/span><\/span>a\u00a0<\/span>basic\u00a0<\/span>right\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>request\u00a0<\/span><\/span>a\u00a0<\/span>reduction\u00a0<\/span><\/span>in\u00a0<\/span><\/span>their\u00a0<\/span>sentence.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>The\u00a0<\/span>supreme\u00a0<\/span>court\u00a0<\/span><\/span>had\u00a0<\/span>noted\u00a0<\/span><\/span>during\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>previous\u00a0<\/span>arguments\u00a0<\/span><\/span>that\u00a0<\/span>state\u00a0<\/span><\/span>governments\u00a0<\/span><\/span>ought\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>give\u00a0<\/span><\/span>all\u00a0<\/span>prisoners\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>chance\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>reform\u00a0<\/span><\/span>and\u00a0<\/span><\/span>reintegrate\u00a0<\/span><\/span>into\u00a0<\/span><\/span>society\u00a0<\/span><\/span>and\u00a0<\/span>that\u00a0<\/span><\/span>they\u00a0<\/span><\/span>shouldn’t\u00a0<\/span>be\u00a0<\/span>allowed\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>be\u00a0<\/span><\/span>selective\u00a0<\/span><\/span>in\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>remission\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>sentences.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>In\u00a0<\/span><\/span>addition\u00a0<\/span>to\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Bano’s\u00a0<\/span><\/span>petition\u00a0<\/span><\/span>challenging\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>remission\u00a0<\/span><\/span>that\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>Gujarat\u00a0<\/span>government\u00a0<\/span><\/span>had\u00a0<\/span>granted\u00a0<\/span><\/span>them,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>a\u00a0<\/span>number\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span>other\u00a0<\/span><\/span>PILs\u00a0<\/span><\/span>have\u00a0<\/span>also\u00a0<\/span><\/span>contested\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>relief,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>including\u00a0<\/span><\/span>one\u00a0<\/span><\/span>from\u00a0<\/span><\/span>CPI(M)\u00a0<\/span><\/span>leader\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Subhashini\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Ali,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>independent\u00a0<\/span><\/span>journalist\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Revati\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Laul,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>and\u00a0<\/span><\/span>former\u00a0<\/span><\/span>vice-chancellor\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Lucknow\u00a0<\/span><\/span>University\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Roop\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Rekha\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Verma.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Mahua\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Moitra,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>leader\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>TMC,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>has\u00a0<\/span>also\u00a0<\/span>filed\u00a0<\/span><\/span>a\u00a0<\/span>PIL\u00a0<\/span><\/span>opposing\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>remission\u00a0<\/span><\/span>and\u00a0<\/span><\/span>their\u00a0<\/span>early\u00a0<\/span><\/span>release.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>When\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Bilkis\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Bano,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>then\u00a0<\/span><\/span>twenty-one,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>was\u00a0<\/span>raped\u00a0<\/span><\/span>while\u00a0<\/span><\/span>escaping\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>horror\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>communal\u00a0<\/span>riots\u00a0<\/span><\/span>that\u00a0<\/span><\/span>erupted\u00a0<\/span><\/span>following\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Godhra\u00a0<\/span><\/span>train-burning\u00a0<\/span><\/span>event,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>she\u00a0<\/span>was\u00a0<\/span><\/span>five\u00a0<\/span>months\u00a0<\/span><\/span>pregnant.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Her\u00a0<\/span>daughter,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>age\u00a0<\/span>three,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>was\u00a0<\/span>one\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>seven\u00a0<\/span><\/span>family\u00a0<\/span>members\u00a0<\/span><\/span>who\u00a0<\/span><\/span>perished\u00a0<\/span><\/span>in\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>riots.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>August\u00a0<\/span>15,\u00a0<\/span>2022,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>saw\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>release\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span>all\u00a0<\/span><\/span>11\u00a0<\/span><\/span>convicted\u00a0<\/span>individuals\u00a0<\/span><\/span>when\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>Gujarati\u00a0<\/span>government\u00a0<\/span><\/span>awarded\u00a0<\/span><\/span>them\u00a0<\/span><\/span>remission.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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