Barnes & Noble has also filed an application for review of the Supreme Court decision to allow the Gujarat government to decide whether to release the convicts.
Posted on – Wed 30 Nov 22 at 02:45pm
New Delhi: Bilkis Bano has applied to the Supreme Court against the release of the 11 men who gang-raped her during riots in Gujarat state in 2002.
Lawyer Shobha Gupta representing Bano referred to the matter before the bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud. Gupta argued that there was little chance that a panel of judges led by Justice Ajay Rastogi would be able to hear the matter, as he is now part of the constitutional judges’ hearing.
Bano has also filed a petition for review of the Supreme Court judgment, allowing the Gujarat government to decide whether to release the convict.
The chief justice said the review must be heard before it goes to Justice Rastogi. Gupta proposed that the matter must be heard in open court. The Chief Justice said only the courts could decide, adding that he would decide whether to go public after looking into the matter that night.
In May this year, the Supreme Court ruled that the Gujarat government could consider the request for immunity because the crime occurred in Gujarat. Based on this ruling, the Gujarat government decided to release all 11 convicts.
The high court held that the Maharashtra government should consider commuting the sentence as the trial of the case was transferred from Gujarat there.
