New Delhi, August 17, 2022 (PPI-OT):After convicts in the infamous Bilkis Bano case were released, Congress leader Manish Tewari has taken up the case of Sikh prisoners languishing in Indian jails and called for a uniformity in the definition of remission policy.

“There must be uniformity across the country about definition of life imprisonment and remissions permissible. “While some convicts walk free after 15 years others languish in jail for 30 years or more? Classical case – Sikh Prisoners in jail for 03 decades,” he said in a tweet.

All 11 life imprisonment convicts in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gang-rape case and murder of seven members of her family on Monday walked out of Godhra sub-jail after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy. A special CBI court in Mumbai had sentenced the 11 accused to life imprisonment on the charge of gang-rape and murder of seven members of Bilkis Bano’s family on January 21, 2008. The Bombay High Court had later upheld their conviction.

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