{"id":88321,"date":"2022-10-21T20:30:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=88321"},"modified":"2022-10-21T20:30:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T15:00:13","slug":"the-supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-a-fresh-appeal-against-the-release-of-11-convicts-in-the-bilkis-bano-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/the-supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-a-fresh-appeal-against-the-release-of-11-convicts-in-the-bilkis-bano-case\/","title":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court agrees to hear a fresh appeal against the release of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the 2002 Godhra riots, 11 convicts who gang-raped Bilkis Bano and killed her family members were remitted from prison by the Supreme Court on Friday. The Organisation for Women urged the court to revoke the remission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was tagged with the main petition pending before the Supreme Court by a bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and CT Ravikumar. National Federation of India was represented by Annie Raja, whose General Secretary challenged the remission of sentences and the release of convicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier, the top court denied remission for 11 convicts by the Gujarat government on November 29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In its affidavit, the Gujarat government said convicts completed 14 years of prison sentences and had good behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In accordance with the 1992 policy, the State government granted remission to all 11 convicts on August 10, 2022, and the Central government also approved the early release of convicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of the celebration of &#8220;Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav&#8221;, the remission was not granted under the circular that governs prisoner remissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Based on all the opinions, the state government decided to release 11 prisoners since they had served 14 years or more in prison and showed good behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the 2002 Godhra riots, the Gujarat government pardoned 11 convicts for gang-raping Bilkis Bano and murdering her family members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the 2002 Godhra riots, 11 convicts who gang-raped Bilkis Bano and killed her family members were remitted from prison by the Supreme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88323,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88321\/revisions\/88323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}