“…There Is An Assurance Of Justice”: Advocate Vrinda Grover On Supreme Court’s Bilkis Bano’s Case Verdict (image-screen grab)
Supreme Court on Monday after pronouncing the verdict of Bilkis Bano’s case, advocate Vrinda Grover called it ‘a good judgment which has upheld the Rule of Law’.
The Supreme Court overruled the Gujarat government’s decision to release 11 convicts who gangraped 21-year-old, pregnant Bilkis Bano and murdered 14 members of her family including her three-year-old daughter during 2002 Gujarat riot.
“It is a very good judgement which has upheld the Rule of Law and the faith of the people of this country, particularly the women, in the legal system, the courts, and that there is an assurance for justice,” said Vrinda Grover praising the judgment.
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She also commended on the verdict passed by Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan, as a “detailed one, clearly stating the reason for quashing the remission order and directing the convicts to return to the prison within a period of 14 days”.
She called the Gujarat government’s decision of remission as a ‘scathing indictment’, as the rule clearly states that state within whose territorial limits the offence was committed or the accused was imprisoned cannot decide remission.
She pointed out that in order to ensure free and fair proceedings, the trial was transferred from Gujarat by the order of the Supreme Court to a special court in Maharashtra.
The 11 accused were convicted by the High court which was upheld by all superior courts, she added.
The Supreme Court order came after it heard Bilkis Bano‘s request to cancel the remission given to the convicts. The bench comprising of Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan observed that its May 2022 order directing Gujarat government to decide the remission was secured by suppressing facts and fraud played on court.
