Photos of the hero welcoming the liberated prisoners went viral on social media, which angered some groups. In light of this context, Supreme Court public interest lawsuits challenging the relief given to the offenders were filed.
Digital Desk: Bilkis Bano's plea for a review of the judgement from May 2022 was denied by the Supreme Court. The Gujarat government has the authority to determine whether to grant the requests for pardons of 11 prisoners who were given life sentences for murder and gang rape committed during the Gujarat riots of 2002, according to the Supreme Court's ruling from May 2022. In May 2022, a court presided over by Justice Rastogi determined that because the offence was committed in Gujarat, the Gujarati government was authorised to hear the plea for exemption. Earlier, the Gujarat High Court ruled that since the trial was transferred from Gujarat to Mumbai, the State of Maharashtra should consider the exemption. All eleven prisoners were eventually released on August 15, 2022.
Photos of the hero welcoming the liberated prisoners went viral on social media, which angered some groups. In light of this context, Supreme Court public interest lawsuits challenging the relief given to the offenders were filed.
Among the petitioners are National Federation of Indian Women, writer Revati Lal, TMC MP Mahua Moitra, former IPS officer Meera Chadha Borwankar, and several other former city officials. In response to the petitions, the Gujarat government informed the Supreme Court in an affidavit that the decision was made with the central government's permission in light of the inmates' good behaviour and the end of their 14-year sentence.
The CBI and the trial judge of the special CBI court in Mumbai objected to the convicts' release because the crime was serious and horrific, according to the state's affidavit. One of the offenders was arrested in 2020 for sexually abusing a lady while he was on parole, according to the annexures to the state's affidavit. Background The crime happened in Gujarat in 2002, during the racial unrest. Around 19-year-old Bilkis Bano and her family were escaping from their hamlet in the Dahod district while five months pregnant.
Their mother and three other women were sexually assaulted along with 14 other members of their family, including their three-year-old daughter, when they arrived in Chhapparwad hamlet on the outskirts of Bilkis. The inquiry was given to the CBI as instructed by the Supreme Court due to the political clout of the accused parties and the sensitivity of the matter.
Additionally, the Supreme Court moved the trial to Maharashtra.
The culprit was given a life sentence by a sessions court in Mumbai in 2008. An accused person who had served 15 years in prison made a premature release request to the Supreme Court after having it initially refused by the Gujarat High Court because Maharashtra, not Gujarat, would be the proper government to be in charge. On May 13, 2022, the Supreme Court ruled that the Gujarati government should be the one to award exemptions, and it gave Gujarat two months to evaluate the petition following the 1992 exemption policy.
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