Eleven males convicted of the brutal mass sexual assault of Gujarat lady Bilkis Bano surrendered at a Godhra penal advanced hours sooner than the Supreme Court docket-mandated two-week point in time to give up, set of abode on January 8, ended. The apex court docket revoked the remission and untimely initiate granted to those folks by the Gujarat executive on August 15, 2022.
The surrendered folks—Radheshyam Shah, Jaswant Nai, Govind Nai, Kesar Vohania, Baka Vohania, Raju Soni, Ramesh Chandana, Shailesh Bhatt, Bipin Joshi, Pradip Modhiya, and Mitesh Bhatt—made their formulation from Singwad in Dahod district to the Godhra sub-penal advanced in Panchmahal district correct sooner than hour of darkness. They reportedly arrived in two separate autos.
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Earlier than the expected renounce, more than one objects of personnel from the Panchmahal district police of Gujarat inform recognize been reportedly deployed for security commence air the Godhra sub-penal advanced since lifeless Sunday evening.
Authorities at the Godhra sub-penal advanced verified the renounce at 11:forty five pm on Sunday, the Indian Explicit reported.
The enchancment follows the Supreme Court docket’s dismissal of the convicts’ petitions hunting for more time to give up, where causes such because the in miserable health-neatly being of increasing outdated fogeys, a family marriage ceremony, and slash harvest recognize been cited. On January 8, the pinnacle court docket nullified the Gujarat executive’s chance to grant remission and added that the inform had overstepped its jurisdiction.
The court docket’s commentary came because the males confronted trial and recognize been convicted in neighbouring Maharashtra inform and no longer in Gujarat.
Convicts recognize been released below Gujarat govt’s remission coverage
The convicts, sentenced to lifestyles for sexually assaulting Bilkis Bano and killing her family within the center of the 2002 Gujarat riots, recognize been released on August 15, 2022, in accordance to the Gujarat executive’s 1992 remission coverage. Bilkis Bano had challenged the inform executive’s cross sooner than the apex court docket.
Bano, who was 21 years extinct and 5 months pregnant at the time of the incident, survived a brutal gang rape whereas fleeing with her family from Randhikpur within the aftermath of the 2002 Sabarmati educate carnage. Whereas fleeing, a crammed with 14 family of her family, alongside side her three-365 days-extinct daughter, died.
(With inputs from companies)
