Hope for Uphaar victims? SC allows CBI to file review petition

August 20, 2015 11:30

Just in: Uphaar tragedy: The Supreme Court gives the CBI more time to argue the case and file a review petition. The CBI had sought 30 minutes from the SC to argue points that had been missed out. The SC refused permission but asked the CBI to file a review petition. The CBI has argued that the Ansals should go to jail.

Yesterday, real estate barons Sushil and Gopal Ansal escaped being jailed in the 18-year-old Uphaar Cinema fire tragedy in which 59 people died with the Supreme Court asking them to pay a fine of Rs 30 crore each and restricting their jail term to the period already undergone by them.

Overturning the pleas of the CBI and the victims' association, a three-judge bench of Justices A R Dave, Kurian Joseph and Adarsh Kumar Goel asked them to pay the total fine of Rs 60 crore in three months and deposit it with the Delhi government, which in turn will spend the money on welfare schemes.

While Sushil, 76, had spent over five months in prison, 67-year-old Gopal was in jail for over four months immediately after the tragedy.

The bench rejected the submissions of senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for CBI, that the convicts be sent to jail to serve the remaining jail term.

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