Bilkis Bano Verdict: Hope for Social Justice and Women’s Rights in India
Establishing democratic societies on the basis of social justice and truth, particularly by well-meaning socio-political institutions, including the judiciary, is not easy. The construction of public conception of moral and psychological ‘‘social good’’ constituting the fundamental character of social justice and truth is also a challenge. The recent verdict by the Supreme Court (SC) in the Bilkis Bano gang rape and murder case that rescinded the remission of 11 convicts does raise hope for a democratic India based on social justice, even though it seems to be a bit of an oddity nowadays.
