Days after surrender, Bilkis Bano rapist out on 5-day parole
Convict Pradip Modhiya, a resident of Dahod district, has been released from Godhra district jail on parole due to the death of his father-in-law.
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Convict Pradip Modhiya, a resident of Dahod district, has been released from Godhra district jail on parole due to the death of his father-in-law.
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India News: One of the convicts in the Bilkis Bano case was granted five-days parole, on Friday, by the Gujarat High Court. Just days after surrendering before Su
Sources in Godhra district jail, where the convicts are lodged, said they have released Modhiya on parole on the High Court orders.
The SC then ordered the convicts, who were released from Godhra district jail on Independence Day in 2022 after being in prison for 14 years, to go back to jail within two weeks. They surrendered before Godhra jail authorities on January 21. Quashing the remission order, the Supreme Court had ruled that the Gujarat government lacked jurisdiction to grant premature release to the convicts as the trial in the 2002 case had been held in Maharashtra.