Uphaar Fire Tragedy: In the Uphaar fire case, the court convicted real estate businessmen Sushil Ansal and Gopal Ansal of tampering with evidence. Along with this, former Dinesh Chand Sharma and two others have also been convicted. Please tell that 59 people were killed in the Uphaar fire. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Pankaj Sharma has also convicted Dinesh Chand Sharma, a former employee of the court, and other persons PP Batra and Anoop Singh in the case. Sentencing may be debated in court on Monday
Earlier, Pankaj Sharma, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Delhi’s Patiala House Court, had reserved the verdict after the completion of the final arguments on Thursday. During the hearing of the case, senior advocate Vikas Pahwa, on behalf of the Uphaar accident victims, told the court that the Ansal brothers and HS Panwar had hatched a conspiracy to destroy the evidence gathered by the CBI in the main Uphaar case. Selected from these important documents were destroyed and many of them disappeared.
A Delhi court convicts businessmen Sushil & Gopal Ansal along with their two employees among others in the case related to tampering with the crucial evidence in the 1997 Uphaar fire tragedy case.
— ANI (@ANI) October 8, 2021
In this case, the Supreme Court had sentenced the Ansal brothers to two years’ imprisonment. However, the Supreme Court released the Ansal brothers after serving a sentence and a fine of Rs 30 crore each. This amount was to be used to build a trauma center in the capital. Two other accused Har Swaroop Panwar and Dharamveer Malhotra died during the trial. Significantly, on June 13, 1997, during the screening of the film Border, a massive fire broke out at Uphaar Cinema located in the Green Park area of Delhi, in which 59 people died.
