Uphaar Cinema Fire: Ansal Brothers' Plea For Suspension Of Jail Term Rejected

Wednesday, 16 February 2022newsdesk
Uphaar Cinema Fire: Ansal Brothers' Plea For Suspension Of Jail Term Rejected
The Delhi High Court today rejected petitions by real estate barons Sushil and Gopal Ansal seeking a suspension of their seven-year jail term for tampering the evidence linked to a fire in Delhi's Uphaar Cinema in 1997 that killed 59 people.

New Delhi, 16 February 2022

As per news report of NDTV, "As far as Ansal brothers are concerned, I am rejecting their application," said Justice Subramonium Prasad. Delhi High Court had reserved its order on January 27, 2022. Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi had appeared for Ansal brothers in Delhi High Court proceedings. The brothers have been in jail since November 2021, after a trial court awarded them seven-year imprisonment and ₹ 2.25-crore fine each. A sessions Court had also rejected the plea of the Ansal brothers in December 2021. While dismissing the Ansals' plea for suspension of sentence till the appeal against the conviction by magisterial court is decided, the sessions court had said that the case was one of the gravest of its kind and the offence appeared to be the outcome of a calculated design on the part of the convicts to interfere with the course of justice.

Source - NDTV

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