Batla House convict Shahzad Ahmed gets life imprisonment

July 30, 2013 14:17

Batla House encounter convict Shahzad Ahmed has been handed a life term Arguing that there were no mitigating circumstances favouring the accused, the prosecution had demanded Shahzad be sentenced to death. Shahzad is the only man arrested in the case.

He was found guilty last Thursday of killing inspector Mohan Chand Sharma, who led a Delhi Police team that stormed an apartment building in Batla House in Delhi's Jamia Nagar on September 19, 2008. Ahmed is a suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist.

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