Gopal Ansal News
Delhi court sentenced 7-year jail term to real estate barons Sushil and Gopal Ansal
They are accused of evidence tampering in Uphaar cinema fire case
The apex court released them on the period already undergone in the jail on the condition that they pay Rs 30 crore fine each to be used for building a trauma centre in the national capital.
The disappearance of documents and tampering with evidence in such a case cannot be taken lightly,? the prosecution submitted before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Pankaj Sharma.
The court also directed senior lawyer Ram Jethmalani, who appeared for Ansal, to ask the real estate baron to complete the rest of his jail term.
The Patiala House Court will on Wednesday pronounce its order on the police's plea demanding that real estate tycoons, Gopal Ansal and Sushil Ansal, who are convicted in the Uphaar fire tragedy case, should seek judicial permission before leaving the country.
The Delhi Government on Tuesday rejected the mercy petition of Gopal Ansal, who is the accused in Uphaar tragedy case.
On June 13, 1997, a fire had broken out at Uphaar theatre during the screening of Bollywood film 'Border', killing 59 people and injuring over 100.
Earlier in the day, the apex court had declined to grant him more time to surrender and asked him to undergo his rest of the jail term.
The Supreme Court today refused Gopal Ansal's plea seeking more time to surrender and asked him to undergo rest of the jail term in the 1997 Uphaar cinema fire tragedy case
Uphaar theatre owner Gopal Ansal, failed to get any relief from the Supreme Court, as his plea against his jail-term was dismissed by the top court on Wednesday.
Real estate baron Gopal Ansal yet again failed to get immediate relief on Friday from the Supreme Court which said it would order listing of his appeal on March 6 in the Uphaar fire tragedy case.
The Supreme Court today agreed to hear on March 3 the fresh plea of real estate baron Gopal Ansal seeking modification of its verdict asking him to serve the remaining jail term in the Uphaar fire case.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered Gopal Ansal, convicted for June 13, 1997, Uphaar fire tragedy in which 59 people lost their lives, to serve one year jail sentence, of which he had already served four months.
Real estate barons Ansal brothers – Sushil and Gopal Ansal - on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking de-sealing of the Uphaar Cinema where a fire tragedy occurred in 1997.
The CBI and the kin of victims of the Uphaar cinema fire tragedy case filed a review petition in the Supreme Court on Friday.
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