ANSAL BROTHERS TO BE SURRENDERED
New Delhi, September 10 The Supreme Court on Wednesday cancelled the bail granted to Sushil and Gopal Ansal earlier this year and ordered them to surrender before the additional chief metropolitan magistrate at the Patiala House district court by 4 pm on Thursday.
The apex court’s Bench of Justices B N Agarwal and G S Singhvi said the brothers did not deserve bail, specially because of their conduct during the long trial. During this time they had been accused of tampering with evidence and judicial records — a charge being examined by a lower court. The court said: “Tampering with judicial records is a crime worse than murder or dacoity. We are of the view that it was not a fit case for the High Court to have granted bail.” The court also observed that the conduct of an accused is crucial while considering bail, even if his offence was bailable. The Ansal brothers had been convicted under Section 304 A — causing death due to a rash and negligent act — and sentenced to two years in jail. A group of eminent lawyers, led by senior counsel Fali S Nariman, presented the brothers’ case for over five hours on Wednesday but could not dissuade the court from ordering their arrest. The apex court, in fact, had ordered the immediate arrest of the real estate tycoons and two managers of the theatre — also out on bail — but Nariman managed a day’s respite. The other two, Ajit Chowdhary and Nirmal Singh Chopra, had been charged under Section 304 IPC (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and sentenced for seven years. The court also rejected the bail plea of former Delhi Vidyut Board (DVB) employee B N Satija and the theatre’s gatekeeper Manmohan Unniyal, charged similarly. The apex court on Wednesday refrained from giving a detailed order because that would have “prejudiced” the other related cases the accused were fighting. But it asked the chief justice of the High Court to ensure that these cases were heard daily. “The concerned judge will make all efforts to deliver the judgment as expeditiously as possible,” the apex court ordered. The Bench was hearing an appeal filed by the Association of Victims of the Uphaar Tragedy (AVUT). The organisation had challenged the bail granted to the Ansal brothers and the other two. On November 20 last year, a trial court had convicted the real estate tycoons and 10 others for the horrific fire in 1997 at the Uphaar theatre that killed 59 people. Owners of the theatre, the Ansal brothers, were sentenced to two years in November, 2007 but managed bail in January this year. The two managers were also given bail. On tampering of evidence, the police had said some of these documents included a police memo with details of recoveries made immediately after the fire at the cinema hall, and also records with the fire services, detailing the repair of a transformer installed inside Uphaar. “When the trial court verdict came eight months ago, I felt they (Ansals) were walking free. Today I feel vindicated that justice has finally been done. It was for this moment that I have waited for 11 years. It was for this that I have not missed a single day in court.”
- Neelam Krishnamurti, whose two children died in Uphaar fire
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