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Lamenting an endeavour to stop him from deciding the case before retirement, Supreme Court judge, justice KM Joseph, on Tuesday left it for some other bench to hear Bilkis Banos petition against the remission granted to 11 men convicted of gangrape and murdering her family, observing that incessant attempts to derail the proceedings were unfair to him...
As several lawyers for the convicts, one after the other, raised questions over the receipt of formal notice in the matter and sought more time to file their affidavits, justice Joseph remarked that he could clearly see a pattern that the parties did not want him to be on the bench for deciding the matter...
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On Tuesday, advocate Shobha Gupta, appearing for Bano, requested justice Joseph to expeditiously decide the matter before his retirement as she accused the convicts of intentionally delaying the case on administrative grounds..
We never said on any day that we dont want to hear it but there is paucity of time, justice Joseph told Gupta after she said the bench may proceed with the matter with respect to the convicts who received formal notices...
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