GRANT OF REMISSIONS

The Supreme Court will examine Maharashtra's challenge to the remission granted to gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli, who is serving a life sentence. Gawli, aged 71, claims eligibility for early release under a 2006 policy for aged and infirm pr...

The Kerala government on Thursday suspended three jail officials for allegedly including three convicts from the high-profile T P Chandrasekharan murder case in a remission list, amidst opposition outcry in the State Assembly accusing the Left dispe...

One more convict in the Bilkis Bano case has moved the Supreme Court seeking a review of its January 8 verdict cancelling remission of his sentence, contending that it cannot be challenged based on the nature of the crime and "society's cry for just...

When asked whether the Maharashtra government, which is also ruled by BJP, could follow Gujarat's example and again grant remission to the convicts, Pawar said, "While the government has taken political decisions, this time I believe they will take ...

The narrative delves into geopolitical realpolitik akin to FDR's remark on dictators. Highlighting the Supreme Court's reversal of Gujarat's controversial relief to 11 convicted in the Bilkis Bano case, it critiques the political motivations behind ...

Sharad Pawar was reacting to the Monday’s Supreme Court order in the Bilkis Bano case, the SC had yesterday quashed the Gujarat government order to give remission to 11 convicts who were convicted to life imprisonment for the gangrape as well as kil...

Holding the PIL challenging the remission as maintainable, an SC bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan said the Gujarat government was not the appropriate government to pass the remission order.

​​​The 11 convicts sentenced to life imprisonment by Justice Salvi were granted remission by the Gujarat government, leading to their premature release from a jail in the adjoining state on August 15, 2022. This decision was challenged in the apex c...

Human rights lawyer Anand Yagnik said the Gujarat government's decision (to grant remission to the convicts) was not in conformity with law but something that appeared to have been passed under certain "social, religious and political pressure". Wit...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi criticised the BJP after the Supreme Court overturns the Gujarat government's decision to grant remission to 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case. Gandhi asserts that the verdict exposes who supports criminals, emphasizin...

Bilkis Bano case: The Supreme Court has quashed the Gujarat government's decision to grant remission to 11 convicts involved in the rape of Bilkis Bano and murder of her family. The court ruled that the state, where an offender is tried and sentence...

Bilkis Bano case: While hearing the matter in September last year, the top court had asked whether convicts have a fundamental right to seek remission. During the earlier arguments, the apex court had observed that state governments should not be se...

The Supreme Court has ordered the Centre and the Gujarat government to submit the original records regarding the remission of sentence for 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case. The court reserved its order after hearing arguments from Bano's...

One of the convicts told the top court that the grant of remission for reformation and rehabilitation of the convicts is a "settled position internationally" and the argument of Bilkis Bano and others that he cannot be granted the relief due to hein...

The submission assumes significance as one of the PIL petitioners, challenging the remission granted to convicts, has argued that their premature release is illegal as they have not served their sentence in entirety. It was also argued that since th...

The Supreme Court is scheduled to resume hearing on Thursday a clutch of petitions challenging the remission granted to all 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case and murder of seven of her family members during the 2002 Gujarat riots. A benc...

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a plea by Vikas Yadav, who is serving a 25-year jail term for the 2002 Nitish Katara murder case, regarding the denial of remission benefits. Yadav has argued that the right to remission is protected under Articl...

The top court's observation came in response to the submission by Additional Solicitor General S V Raju, appearing for the Gujarat government, that law says a chance must be given to even the hardened criminals to reform themselves. The law officer ...

Gupta added the convicts did not even bother to pay the fines imposed on them. The development took place on Tuesday during the resumed hearing of a clutch of petitions challenging the decision of the Gujarat government granting remission to eleven ...