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    • Agencies Tags : nation, Uphaar tragedy, Sushil and Gopal Ansal, Real estate barons Posted: Thursday , Sep 11, 2008 at 1818 hrs
    59 people lost their lives in the Uphaar cinema hall fire tragedy in New Delhi on June 13, 1997.
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    * Nov 5, 2005: Recording of testimonies of defence witnesses begins.

    * Aug 2, 2006: Court concludes recording of testimony of defence witnesses.

    * Feb 14,2007: Accused start advancing final arguments.

    * Aug 20, 2007: Senior advocate Harish Salve appears for CBI and advances final arguments.

    * Aug 21, 2007: Judgement reserved. Court fixes Sep 5 for pronouncement of verdict.

    * Nov 20, 2007: Court convicts all 12 accused including theatre owners Sushil and Gopal Ansal in the case.

    * Nov 23, 2007: Court awards two years jail term to Ansal brothers and grants them bail. Three others -- two MCD officials and Delhi Fire Service staff -- also get two years imprisonment. Other seven convicts sentenced to seven years rigorous imprisonment.

    * Dec 2007: Ansals challenge their conviction in the Delhi High Court and seek continuation of their bail.

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    * Jan 4, 2008: High Court suspends their sentence by extending their bail till conclusion of the hearing on their appeals.

    * Sep 10, 2008: The Supreme Court sets aside the High Court order, asks Ansals and two others to surrender in Patiala House Courts.

    * Sep 11, 2008: Real estate barons surrender and sent to Tihar jail to undergo two years jail term for their complicity in the 1997 Uphaar inferno.

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    Crime proved, Is it not?By: Paul Krist | 11-Sep-2008 Reply | Forward These people tried to remove incriminating files from a lower court to escape punishment. This alone is sufficient evidence and proof of their having confessed to their crime of killing too many members of the public with their gross negligence.
    AWARD R.I. FOR LIFE TO THESE MEN burning to death dozens and criminally trying to evade lawBy: MMK Rao | 11-Sep-2008 Reply | Forward It is extremely strange, to put it mildly, that a case involving big moneyed people along with their men, who caused the gory death of dozens of people, with their utter recklessness of management and grave unconcern for public's safety in their cinema theatre, should be dragging along, for more than a decade. This fact MUST not dilute the degree of severity of the punishment that must be meted out by rigorous life imprisonment of the people who dare, even at this stage, to escape from the arm of the law by criminal methods. THE PUBLIC DEMAND THAT THE MOST SEVEREST PUNISHMENT BE AWARDED TO THESE MEN AS A DETERRENT TO FUTURE RECKLESSNESS OF THIS MAGNITUDE.
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