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Bilkis Bano case: The Supreme Court of India on Monday quashed the Gujarat government's decision to grant remission and early release to 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano rape case. The decision was hailed by many political leaders including Rahul Gandhi who called it a “victory of justice". Rahul Gandhi took to microblogging site X to hail Supreme Court's decision on Bilkis Bano rape case and said, “The tendency to 'kill justice' for electoral gains is dangerous for the democratic system.

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After the Supreme Court’s verdict quashing the remission granted to the 11 convicted men in a case of the gangrape of Bilkis Bano and the murder of her family members, the family said it felt “relieved but not victorious”.

Congress has hailed the Supreme Court judgment quashing the Gujarat government's decision to grant remission to 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case, saying it has removed the veil over the BJP's anti-women policies. Reacting to the ruling, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said justice has ultimately prevailed. "With this order, the veil over the anti-women policies of the Bharatiya Janata Party has been removed.

NEW DELHI : The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the government seeking a response to a plea filed by online gaming companies on tax demands adding up to ₹1.5 lakh crore. The court, however, did not issue a stay on the tax notices issued by the government. A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice D.Y.

NCLAT) has dismissed Authum Investment & Infrastructure's appeal against the takeover of the twin SREI NBFCs by the National Asset Reconstruction Co Ltd (NARCL) clearing all roadblocks for the smooth takeover of the companies. In an oral order a two judge bench of NCLAT chairman Ashok Bhushan and Barun Mitra said they do not find an error in the NCLT order rejecting Authum's plan in August and there were no grounds in the appeal. The order is a boost to the beleaguered NARCL which has been struggling to complete transactions. The SREI acquisition is the company's largest transaction and first through the bankruptcy process. Rajneesh Sharma administrator to SREI Infrastructure Finance Ltd (SIFL) and SREI Equipment Finance Finance Ltd (SEFL) said though formalities like payments by NARCL, issuance of debentures and security receipts have been completed in December, the court's order means the handover will be completed in the next few days. «The NCLAT order only confirms that the NCLT decision was genuine.

Supreme Court on Monday invalidated the Gujarat government's decision to grant remission to 11 convicts involved in the Bilkis Bano gangrape and the murder of seven of her family members amid the 2002 riots in the state. The court asserted that the remission orders lacked thoughtful consideration, deeming them «stereotyped.» Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan, presiding over the bench, instructed the convicted individuals to surrender to jail authorities within a span of two weeks. In response to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging the remission, the bench deemed it maintainable and underscored that the Gujarat government was not the competent authority to issue such orders. Here's what the SC said The Supreme Court, while delivering the verdict, said, «We need not have gone into the other issues. But for sake of completion, we have. Rule of law is breached because the Gujarat government usurped power not vested in it and abused its power. On that ground also, the remission orders deserve to be quashed,» the bench said while pronouncing the judgement which spanned over 100 pages.

SC quashes remission granted to 11 convicts in Bilkis Bano case On Monday, the Supreme Court struck down the remission granted to 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case on the ground that the Gujarat government had no competence to grant remission. The top court held as 'nullity' its May 13, 2022 order of another bench asking Gujarat govt to consider remission plea of convicts 1. “The exercise of power by the state of Gujarat is an instance of usurpation of power and abuse of power".

Read Bilkis Bano case LIVE updates The top court said that the State of Gujarat was not competent to to grant remission to 11 convicts sentenced to life term for the gangrape of Bilkis Bano and killing her family members during the 2002 Gujarat communal riots. A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan pronounced the judgement on Monday. The Supreme Court also pulled up the Gujarat government for passing remission orders in August 2022 in a cyclostyled manner, with no application of mind.

Bilkis Bano Case: The Supreme Court on January 8 held that the May 2022 order of another bench of the top court is null since it was obtained by fraud by the petitioner convict. It has quashed the early release of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case. All 11 will be sent back to jail.

Bilkis Bano case Live Updates: The Supreme Court is expected to deliver a verdict today on the Bilkis Bano case, which involves petitions challenging the remission granted to 11 convicts. The case filed against 11 convicts during 2002 Gujarat riots, that broke out after the Godhra train-burning incident, involved convictions on charges on gangrape of Bilkis Bano and murder of seven of her family members.The gangrape victim Bilkis Bano was 21 years old and five months pregnant when the incident took place while fleeing communal riots.

Bilkis Bano convicts remission case on Monday, January 8. The court had earlier heard a batch of pleas that challenged the remission granted to convicts in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case. A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan had on October 12 last year reserved its verdict after an 11-day hearing on the petitions, including the one filed by Bano.

Supreme Court that nomination papers of 76 per cent of candidates of jailed former premier Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party were accepted for the February 8 general elections. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) submitted the data in response to a contempt petition filed by the PTI party that the electoral body had not followed a direction by the apex court to address its concerns about the lack of a level playing field in the run-up to polls. The ECP stated that 598 out of a total of 843 nomination papers of PTI candidates for the National Assembly were accepted, while another 1,398 out of 1,777 candidatures for provincial assemblies were approved.

Delhi is currently dealing with persistent haze, and to worsen the situation, the smog tower in Connaught Place is not working. This tower, inaugurated by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in 2021, has been shut down by the personnel responsible for its operations.

OpenAI, under the leadership of Sam Altman, and tech giant Microsoft are in the spotlight facing a fresh class-action lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed by book authors, accuses both companies of utilizing copyrighted materials without permission to build a highly profitable AI system, triggering serious allegations of intellectual property theft. Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage, non-fiction authors, have taken the initiative to file a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court, representing a group of writers who claim their copyrighted works have been consistently appropriated by Microsoft and OpenAI. The lawsuit's central accusation compares the companies to common thieves, emphasizing their alleged infringement on intellectual property.

appeals court on Saturday allowed a judge's ruling that barred California from enforcing a new law that bans the carrying of guns in most public places on the grounds that it was unconstitutional to take effect. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dissolved an order by a different 9th Circuit panel from a week earlier that suspended an injunction issued by a judge who concluded the Democratic-led state's law violated the right of citizens to keep and bear arms under the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment.

₹538 crore fraud case with Canara Bank, the founder of Jet Airways conveyed a sense of hopelessness. It’s “better he should die rather than be alive in such a situation", Goyal said with folded hands as reported by PTI. Goyal, in his 70s, also mentioned the health struggles of his wife, Anita, currently struggling with an advanced stage of cancer.

Enforcement Directorate said on Saturday that it conducted searches on several premises linked to Religare Finvest Ltd (RFL), in connection with an ongoing probe into alleged misappropriation of more than ₹2,000 crore by the former promoters of the financing company's parent, Religare Enterprises Ltd. The ED, which is investigating the money-laundering aspect of the case, said it searched nine locations in the National Capital Region on Friday and Saturday, covering the corporate offices of RFL, M3M India Holdings, RHC Holding Pvt Ltd, Hillgrow Infrastructure Pvt Ltd, Dion Global Solutions and Prius commercial. In a regulatory filing, Religare Enterprises said RFL had made a request to the ED to expedite the probe. RFL has also promised its lenders that it would make «all possible efforts» to recover the siphoned off funds, a Religare Enterprises spokesperson told ET, adding that RFL had commissioned a forensic audit to trace the assets and money trail. The Enforcement Directorate's money laundering case against erstwhile Religare promoters Malvinder and Shivinder Mohan Singh, and its former chairman and managing director Sunil Godhwani, is based on a case registered by the Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing. The ED had arrested the Singh brothers and Godhwani in October 2019.

ALSO READ: Ayodhya Ram Temple consecration ceremony: Cops discuss alternative routes, security arrangements Thackeray, who has not been invited to the grand consecration ceremony, said, “We do not want to indulge in matter of who has got the invitation and who has not." He added, “When the consecration ceremony will be held in Ayodhya, at the same time, we will participate by offering prayers at the Kala Ram Temple in Nasik. On the same day, we will hold party's conference in Nasik itself." Nasik's Kala Ram Temple is dedicated to Lord Ram. It is believed that Lord Ram stayed here in Panchvati with wife Sita and brother Laksham during their exile ('Vanvaas'), ANI reported.

Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal, an accused in the alleged fraud of Rs 538 crore at Canara Bank, on Saturday told a special court here with "folded hands" that he had «lost every hope of life» and it will be «better if he dies in jail» than living in his present condition. The septuagenarian, who turned teary-eyed, submitted that he misses his wife Anita very badly and said she is in the advanced stage of cancer, according to court records. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Goyal on September 1 last year in connection with the alleged bank fraud.

Dave, a fintech firm specializing in financial services through its mobile application, is set to acquire a $100-million convertible promissory note previously issued to FTX Ventures, the venture capital arm of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX.