"Horrendous Wrong Decision":134 Former Civil Servants Write To CJI Seeking Revocation Of Gujarat Govt. Order Releasing Bilkis Bano's Case Convicts
Live LawFormer Civil Servants have written an open letter the Chief Justice of India against the premature release of 11 life convicts in the case of gang rape of Bilkis Bano and the murder of her family members in the 2002 Gujarat riots. The letter beseeches the Supreme Court to rescind the Gujarat Government's order of remission and send them back to jail to serve out their life sentence. On 13.05.2022, the Supreme Court decided that the appropriate government to grant remission would be the Gujarat Government and directed it to consider the plea within a period of two months in terms of its 1992 remission policy. In this context, the letter reads as under - "We consider it unfortunate that the Constitution Bench precedent laid down in V. Shriharan's case was not followed…" The urgency indicated in the Supreme Court order directing the State Government to consider the remission plea within a period of two months has puzzled the former civil servants.