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Uphaar Case: No more jail term for Ansal brothers; SC dismisses plea Last Updated : 20 Feb 2020 11:35:30 AM IST Uphaar Cinema (file photo) The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a curative petition filed by victims' goup of the 1997 Uphaar cinema fire tragedy case.
After this judgement, it is final now, the Ansal brothers would not go to jail. The brothers had escaped further jail term after the court's direction in 2015 to shell out Rs 60 crore in penalty.A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde, and comprising Justices N.V. Ramana and Arun Mishra, in-chamber considered the curative plea by the Association for Victims of Uphaar Tragedy (AVUT)and dismissed it.The court said: "We have gone through the curative petitions and the relevant documents. In our opinion, no case is made out.... Hence, the curative petition is dismissed."The AVUT, through its president Neelam Krishnamoorthy, had sought review of the verdict. The association filed the curative petition in the top court seeking more jail time for the brothers for negligence, leading to the horrific fire which killed 59 people. This incident later came to be known as the Uphaar tragedy.The apex court had in August 2015 allowed the Ansals to walk free and asked them to pay a fine of Rs 30 crore each.In February 2017, the top court had through a 2:1 majority judgement gave relief to 78-year-old Sushil Ansal, citing his "advanced age-related complications" by awarding him the jail term which he had already served.However, the court had asked his younger brother Gopal Ansal to serve the remaining one year jail term.On June 13, 1997, halfway through the screening of Hindi film "Border", a fire broke out in the Uphaar cinema, located in Green Park in south Delhi, killing 59 people in one of the worst tragedies.IANS New Delhi For Latest Updates Please-
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