Uphaar horror: Review 'no jail term' verdict for Ansals, CBI tells SC

November 06, 2015 12:35

Uphaar cinema case: The CBI asks the Supreme Court to review the verdict which said 'no jail term for Ansals'.

In August, real estate barons Sushil and Gopal Ansal escaped being jailed in the 18-year-old horrific 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 hem.

Over turning the pleas of 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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