Bilkis Banu Case: Special Bench; The petition against the judgment releasing the accused will be considered

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New Delhi
The Supreme Courtroom will arrange a particular bench to contemplate the plea in opposition to the acquittal of the accused within the Bilkis Banu gang-rape case, a brutal crime within the Gujarat genocide. A particular bench will probably be constituted to contemplate the petition filed by Bilkis Banu in opposition to the BJP authorities, which had granted remission of sentence to 11 accused. Chief Justice DY Chandrachud assured Bilkis’ lawyer Shobha Gupta {that a} new bench could be fashioned quickly.

In the course of the Gujarat Genocide, seven members of Bilkis Banu’s household had been killed by assailants. Pregnant Bilkis Banu was gang-raped by the assailants. The accused on this case first approached the Supreme Courtroom for commutation of sentence. The court docket directed the Gujarat authorities to take a call on this on May 13. After this, the Gujarat authorities launched the accused on August 15 with a reprieve. The Supreme Courtroom had earlier rejected the evaluate petition filed by Bilkis Banu in opposition to the Supreme Courtroom order of May 13.

There was a nationwide and worldwide protest in opposition to the BJP authorities’s acquittal of the accused. CPI-M chief Subhashini Ali and others approached the court docket in opposition to the federal government motion.

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