New Delhi, January 9, 2024: The National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) welcomes the landmark judgment of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in the ‘Bilkis
Bilkis, in a statement issued through her lawyer Shobha Gupta, thanked the top court and said 'this is what justice feels like' and 'today is truly the New Year for me', PTI reported
Setting aside the "stereotyped and cyclostyled" remission orders passed by the Gujarat government, the Supreme Court asked 11 gang-rape and murder convicts in Bilkis Bano case to surrender before the.
Setting aside the "stereotyped and cyclostyled" remission orders passed by the Gujarat government, the Supreme Court on Monday asked 11 gang-rape and murder convicts in Bilkis Bano case to surrender before the jail authorities concerned within a period of two weeks.
The apex court held that the judgement of May 13, 2022 (which directed the Gujarat government to consider remission of convict) was obtained by "playing fraud" on the court and by suppressing material facts.The convicts had not approached the court with clean hands, the apex court observed.