The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on a clutch of pleas against the decision of the Gujarat government to grant remission to 11 convicts sentenced to life imprisonment for multiple.
Bilkis Bano s lawyer told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that her rapists were treated with kid gloves and favoured by the Gujarat government despite the gruesome and barbaric nature of the crime.
The High Court had upheld the state’s decision, terming it a "reasonable requirement" and observed that it "does not prohibit the use of any other language".
In the Bilkis Bano case, Senior Advocate V Chitambaresh, appearing for the released convicts, told the Supreme Court on Wednesday (September 20) that a remission order can be challenged only in a high.
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