A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan will deliver the verdict in the batch of petitions challenging the early release of the convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang rape case.
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.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday posed the question of whether a right to seek remission fell under any of the fundamental rights in the Constitution Bilkis Yakub Rasool v. Union of India and ors