New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday said it will consider an early listing of a plea filed by the victim (Bilkis Bano) seeking a review of its earlier order by which it had asked the Gujarat government to consider the plea for the remission of 11 convicts in Bilkis Bano gangrape case.
A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices PS Narasimha and Dipankar Datta said, “It will come up by circulation. I will have it posted early. There is a date, I will check.”
The bench added the comments after Advocate Shobha Gupta informed the apex court that the review plea is yet to be listed and a tentative date was shown as December 5.
As per procedures, review pleas against top court judgements are decided in chambers by circulation by the judges who were part of the judgement under review.
She has filed a review plea against the May order of the Supreme Court which allowed the Gujarat government to apply the 1992 remission Rules.
Bano, besides filing a review petition, also filed a plea challenging the premature release of 11 convicts, who had gang raped her and murdered her family members during the 2002 Godhra riots.
The matter is listed for hearing on December 13 before a bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and Bela Trivedi.
Bano said that even being the victim of the crime, she had no clue about any such process of remission or premature release initiated.
Gujarat’s remission order is a mechanical order of remission by completely ignoring the law required as consistently laid down, the plea said.
Earlier, some PILs were filed seeking directions to revoke the remission granted to 11 convicts.
The pleas were filed by the National Federation of Indian Women, whose General Secretary is Annie Raja, Member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Subhashini Ali, journalist Revati Laul, social activist and professor Roop Rekha Verma and TMC MP Mahua Moitra.
Gujarat government in its affidavit had defended remission granted to convicts saying they completed 14 years of sentence in prison and their “behaviour was found to be good”.
(With Agency Inputs)
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