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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain submissions seeking early setting up of a fresh bench to hear Bilkis Bano’s plea challenging the remission of sentence of 11 convicts by the Gujarat government in her gangrape case.
A bench comprising CJI DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha was urged by lawyer Shobha Gupta, appearing for Bano, that another bench should be constituted to hear the case.
“The writ (petition) will be listed. Please do not keep mentioning the same thing again and again. It is very irritating,” the CJI said.
The lawyer said though the petition was listed Tuesday, it was not taken up for hearing. “It will be listed. The review (plea) was also circulated on Tuesday,” the CJI said.
SC judge Bela M Trivedi on Tuesday recused herself from hearing a plea filed by Bano. “List the matter before a bench in which one of us is not a member,” the bench headed by Justice Rastogi ordered. Bano’s lawyer had said her only predicament was that winter vacation of the court is approaching and she wanted the matter to be heard at an earlier date. The CJI will now have to set up a fresh bench, to which Justice Trivedi will not be a part, to hear Bano’s case.
A bench comprising CJI DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha was urged by lawyer Shobha Gupta, appearing for Bano, that another bench should be constituted to hear the case.
“The writ (petition) will be listed. Please do not keep mentioning the same thing again and again. It is very irritating,” the CJI said.
The lawyer said though the petition was listed Tuesday, it was not taken up for hearing. “It will be listed. The review (plea) was also circulated on Tuesday,” the CJI said.
SC judge Bela M Trivedi on Tuesday recused herself from hearing a plea filed by Bano. “List the matter before a bench in which one of us is not a member,” the bench headed by Justice Rastogi ordered. Bano’s lawyer had said her only predicament was that winter vacation of the court is approaching and she wanted the matter to be heard at an earlier date. The CJI will now have to set up a fresh bench, to which Justice Trivedi will not be a part, to hear Bano’s case.
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