Supreme Court To Hear Bilkis Bano's Petition Against Rapists On Mar 27
NDTV
A bench of justices KM Joseph and BV Nagarathna will hear the pleas filed by several political and civil rights activists, and a writ petition filed by Ms Bano.
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 killing of seven members of her family during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
A bench of justices KM Joseph and BV Nagarathna will hear the pleas filed by several political and civil rights activists, and a writ petition filed by Ms Bano.
On March 22, Chief Justice DY Chandrachud had directed the matter for urgent listing and had agreed to constitute a new bench to hear the batch of pleas.
On January 4, a bench comprising justices Ajay Rastogi and Bela M Trivedi took up the petition filed by Ms Bano and the other pleas. However, Justice Trivedi recused from hearing the case without citing any reason.