New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear the plea of three convicts of the Bilkis Bano case on Friday, who have sought an extension of time to surrender.
After hearing senior advocate V Chitambaresh, who mentioned that the time to surrender expires on January 21, a bench of Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan agreed to hear the plea tomorrow.
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The matter pertains to a judgment of the Apex Court in which it had quashed the remission granted to 11 convicts of the Bilkis Bano gang rape case by the Gujarat government saying that it did not have the power to apply the remission policy on these eleven convicts as their trial was conducted in Maharashtra.
The remission could have been granted by the Maharashtra Government only, as the trial was conducted there.
Supreme Court bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan on January 8 had quashed the remission granted to them by the Gujarat government and asked the 11 convicts to surrender by January 21. (UNI)
