Provisions such as remission, parole, and furlough provide imprisoned individuals with something to look forward to and play a crucial role in their process of reformation exclusionary policies need to be interrogated
The Supreme Court bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan today concluded that the Gujarat government had no power to apply its remission policy to the eleven convicts in the Bilkis Bano rape case.
Had the state of Gujarat sought a review of the May 2022 SC order and pointed out that the state of Maharashtra was the appropriate government to deal with the Bilkis Bano matter, the ensuing litigation would not have arisen at all, the bench said.
We have seen in recent times an abdication of the power of judicial review of the Supreme Court. All right-minded citizens must welcome the Court coming back to itself
The Supreme Court on Monday cancelled its May 2022 order - delivered by Justice Ajay Rastogi (retired) - which allowed the 11 men who raped Bilkis Bano, and murdered her family, to appeal to the Gujarat government for early release.