NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday took exception to arguments of one of the convicts in the Bilkis Bano case that he might have been rightly or wrongly convicted and told him that their conviction by the top court cannot be questioned.
"You are wrong. Do not use right or wrong after the conviction," a bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan said when one of the convict's lawyer virtually questioned the conviction while stressing the point that all 11 convicts spent 15 years in jail and their liberty, granted by Gujarat government decision to remit their sentences, should not be disturbed by court.
The convicts submitted that they have been out of jail for more than a year and that the nature and effect of the offence committed by them should not be the consideration in deciding remission plea, and their conduct and behaviour after conviction should be the deciding factor.
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