Bilkis Bano
- India
Bilkis Bano case: SC to resume hearing pleas challenging remission of convicts
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is slated to resume hearing on Thursday in a batch of petitions challenging the remission granted to 11 convicts in the infamous case of gang rape of…
- India
SC surprised after being informed that a Bilkis Bano Case convict is lawyer
New Delhi: “Law is supposed to be a noble profession,” the Supreme Court observed on Thursday, and voiced surprise over how can one of the convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case…
- India
Bilkis Bano case: SC questions Gujarat’s ‘selective’ remission policy
New Delhi: State governments should not be selective in granting remission to convicts and the opportunity to reform and reintegrate with society should be given to every prisoner, the Supreme Court Thursday…
- India
Bilkis Bano case: Entertaining PIL petitioners will open pandora’s box, convicts tell SC
New Delhi: The convicts in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case and murder of seven of her family members during the 2002 Gujarat riots told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that entertaining PILs…
- India
Public outcry won’t affect our decisions: SC on Bilkis case convicts’ remission case
New Delhi: “Public outcry will not affect our judicial decisions,” the Supreme Court asserted on Tuesday, as it began weighing the legality of the remission granted to all the 11 convicts in…
- India
Bilkis Bano case: SC posts hearing on July 11, directs to serve notice to convict
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday posted for July 11 a batch of petitions challenging the pre-mature release of 11 convicts who had gang-raped Bilkis Bano and murdered her family members…
- India
Centre, Gujarat govt agree to share documents on remission of Bilkis Bano convicts
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday deferred to May 9 the hearing on a batch of pleas challenging the remission granted to the 11 convicts last year in the case of gangrape…
- India
Bilkis Bano case: Cong slams Centre, Gujarat govt post-SC observations
New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday attacked the central and Gujarat governments over the remission granted to the 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case last year, saying the truth about the…
- Telangana
‘Balatkaar Justification Party’: KTR on BJP MP sharing stage with Bilkis Bano rapist
Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leaders K. Kavitha and her brother K.T. Rama Rao have lashed out at BJP after one of the convicts in Bilkis Bano gang-rape case shared stage with…
- India
Kavitha, Mahua Moitra react after Bilkis Bano’s rapist shares stage with BJP MP
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC Kalvakuntla Kavitha, and Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra expressed their opinions on Twitter after one of the convicts in the Bilkis Bano rape case shared a stage…
- India
Bilkis Bano case: SC constitutes new bench to hear plea against remission to convicts
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear on March 27 a batch of pleas challenging the remission of sentence of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case that also involves the…