Bilkis Bano rape case: In their petitions, the three men refered to reasons going from family weddings and dependent guardians to the harvest season for mentioning additional time
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday consented
to list the petitions recorded by three convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape
case who have requested additional time to surrender. The petitions come more
than seven days after the 11 men were requested back to prison after the
Supreme Court dropped the request that conceded them early release.
Senior legal
advisor V Chitambaresh looked for an early hearing in the appeal, saying that
the three men just a brief time before they needed to surrender on January 21.
Justice BV Nagarathna guided the vault to look for orders from Chief Justice of
India DY Chandrachud to constitute a bench with Justice Ujjal Bhuiyan to hear
the petitions on Friday.
In their
petitions, the three men refered to reasons going from family weddings and
dependent guardians to the harvest season for mentioning additional time.
In a
milestone decision on January 8, the Supreme Court dropped the Gujarat
government's choice to concede reduction to the 11 men who gang-raped Bilkis
Bano and killed seven individuals from her family, including her three-year old
girl, during the 2002 Gujarat riots. The judges additionally coordinated the
convicts, who were released on Independence Day in 2022, to surrender by
January 22.
Convict
Govindbhai Nai has requested four additional weeks and Ramesh Chandana and
Mitesh Bhatt have looked for six additional weeks to hand themselves over.
In his
request to the Supreme Court, Nai, who works as a barber, guarantees that he is
the sole guardian for his 88-year-old confined to bed father and 75-year-old
mother, who he says are totally reliant upon him. He additionally says he is
liable for the monetary necessities of his two youngsters. The 55-year-old
likewise alluded to his own wellbeing, saying he has asthma and as of late went
through a surgery. Nai additionally guarantees that after his lelease from
jail, he had not abused any law and had followed the agreements of the delivery
(release) request.
Ramesh
Chandana has let the Supreme Court know that he wants time for his child's
wedding, and Mitesh Bhatt has refered to the harvest season.
21-year-old
Bilkis Bano was pregnant when she and her family were gone after by a horde
during the 2002 mobs. She and two of her kids were the main overcomers of that
assault.
The ones who
gang-raped her and killed her family were concurred a legend's welcome upon
their release by the Gujarat government.
The Supreme
Court said the Gujarat government was not equipped to release the men.
"The exercise of power by the state of Gujarat is an occurrence of
usurpation of power and maltreatment of power. Law and order should be saved
ignorant of the waves of the outcomes," Judges BV Nagarathna and Ujjal
Bhuyan said in their order.
"To
keep them out wouldn't be in consonance of law and order," the Supreme
Court said, adding that "contentions with emotional appeal become empty
when put in juxtaposition with current realities of the case."
The convicts
who were released early are Jaswant Nai, Govindbhai Nai, Shailesh Bhatt,
Radhyesham Shah, Bipin Chandra Joshi, Kesarbhai Vohania, Pradeep Mordhiya,
Bakabhai Vohania, Rajubhai Soni, Mitesh Bhatt and Ramesh Chandana.