




Ansal brothers surrendered before Additional Sessions Judge I K Kochhar at the Patiala House district courts.
Two managers of the Uphaar theatre, Ajit Chowdhary and Nirmal Chopra, also surrendered before the court.
All the four were directed by the apex Court on Wednesday to surrender before the trial court by 4 pm on Thursday. An apex court bench comprising Justices B N Agrawal and G S Singhvi had ordered their arrest after cancelling their bail.
The bail of the convicts were cancelled on a petition filed by Association of Victims of Uphaar Tragedy (AVUT) challenging the order of the Delhi High Court.
The trial court on November, 20, 2007 had convicted the Ansal brothers along with three others under Section 304-A IPC (causing death due to rash and negligent act) and had sentenced them to two years imprisonment.
Seven others including Ajit Chowdhary and Nirmal Chopra, managers of the theatre whose bail was also cancelled on Wednesday, were convicted under Section 304 IPC (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and sentenced to seven years imprisonment.
Others convicted under section 304 IPC were – Radha Krishan Sharma, Manmohan Unniyal (cinema's gatekeeper), Brij Mohan Satija, A K Gera and Bir Singh (all DVB officials).
The other three convicts -- S S Sharma and N D Tiwari of Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and H S Panwar of Delhi Fire Service -- were also granted two years term as the offences were similar to that of the Ansal brothers.
Fiftynine cinegoers were killed in the blaze in the theatre on June 13, 1997 during the screening of Hindi blockbuster Border. The High Court had granted bail to the Ansal brothers and two other accused on January 4.
Uphaar case chronology
Following is the chronology of events in the 1997 Uphaar fire tragedy case:-
* June 13, 1997: 59 people die of asphyxia in Uphaar cinema hall fire which broke out during the screening of Hindi movie Border. Over 100 others injured in stampede.
* July 22, 1997: Theatre owner Sushil Ansal and his son Pranav arrested in Mumbai by the crime branch...


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