New Delhi: The remission granted by the Gujarat authorities to 11 convicts within the Bilkis Bano case was challenged earlier than the Supreme Court docket on Tuesday.

A bench of Chief Justice of India NV Ramana agreed to look into the matter after advocate Aparna Bhat talked about the matter looking for an pressing itemizing on Wednesday.

Senior advocate Kapil Sibal additionally talked about the matter and stated, “The Supreme Court docket gave a discretion to the federal government to think about it. We’re difficult the remission, not the order of Supreme Court docket”.

The plea earlier than the apex courtroom was filed by member of the Communist Celebration of India (Marxist) Subhashini Ali, journalist Revati Laul, and social activist and professor Roop Rekha Verma.

Earlier on August 19, Telangana MLC Okay Kavitha wrote a letter to Chief Justice of India, NV Ramana urging the Supreme Court docket to intervene within the matter of the discharge of 11 convicts within the Bilkis Bano rape case below the remission coverage of the Gujarat authorities.

The Gujarat authorities launched the 11 convicts, who have been sentenced to life imprisonment, on August 15.

In the meantime, all of the 11 life-term convicts within the case have been launched as per the remission coverage prevalent in Gujarat on the time of their conviction in 2008.

In March 2002 through the post-Godhra riots, Bano was allegedly gang-raped and left to die with 14 members of her household, together with her three-year-old daughter. She was 5 months pregnant when rioters attacked her household in Vadodara.

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