AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat High Court on Friday granted 10-day parole to Bilkis Bano case convict Ramesh Chandana to attend his nephew’s wedding scheduled for March 5.Chandana, who moved the High Court for parole last week, is the second convict in the case to be granted parole after all 11 convicts in the case surrendered at a jail in Godhra town on January 21 following a Supreme Court order.They were convicted in a case of gangrape of Bilkis Bano and the murder of seven of her family members during the 2002 Godhra riots.”By this application, the convict-applicant prays for parole leave on the grounds of attending the marriage ceremony of the son of his sister.Taking into consideration the grounds urged in this application, the applicant-accused is ordered to be released on parole leave for a period of ten days,” said Justice Divyesh Joshi in his order issued on Friday.As per the Gujarat government’s affidavit before the Supreme Court, Chandana had enjoyed parole for 1,198 days and a furlough of 378 days since his incarceration in 2008.Earlier, Pradip Modhiya, another convict in the case, was released from the Godhra jail on parole from February 7 to 11 after the high court allowed his parole plea.
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