Verdict On Uphaar

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  Decide Case On Uphaar Fire By November 30: High Court Tells Lower Court

  The Delhi High Court today directed a lower court to pronounce its verdict in a case relating to the alleged tampering of documents during the trial of the 1997 Uphaar fire tragedy case by November 30 this year

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  Uphaar Ruling Raises Questions on Criminal Justice, Says AAP

  The Supreme Court ruling on the Uphaar cinema fire tragedy has "raised extremely serious questions the way criminal justice is delivered" in India, Delhi's ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) said today.

• Uphaar fire compensation case: Supreme Court verdict today

  The Supreme Court is expected to deliver its verdict on compensation to the victims of the 1997 Uphaar cinema tragedy today. Fifty-nine people had died and over 100 were injured when there was a big fire at Uphaar cinema hall, in the heart of south Delhi, while a film was being screened on the evening of June 13, 1997. The fire started in the parki...

• Victim's mother questions Ansals bail

  The Uphaar victims' families have been fighting for justice for a long time. Now, one such victim's mother, Neelam Krishnamurthy, Convenor of the Association of Victims of Uphaar Tragedy has questions on the Supreme Court's judgement of granting bail to Susheel and Gopal Ansal.

• SC grants bail to Ansal brothers

  The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to the Ansal brothers -- Sushil and Gopal -- who were convicted and sentenced to one-year imprisonment in the Uphaar fire tragedy case.

• SC Judge refuses to hear Ansals' plea

  Supreme Court Judge B N Agrawal on Friday rescued himself from hearing the bail plea of real estate tycoons Sushil and Gopal Ansal in the Uphaar fire case after counsel Ram Jethmalani expressed reservations about the matter being placed before a Bench that included him.

• Uphaar verdict: Victims' kin term it a travesty of justice

  Family members of the victims of Uphaar fire tragedy on Friday expressed shock and anguish over the Delhi High Court's decision to reduce the sentence awarded to the cinema hall owners Sushil and Gopal Ansal from two years to one year.

• Uphaar case: Court reduces Ansal brothers' jail term

  The Delhi High Court on Friday pronounced the Ansal brothers guilty in the Uphaar cinema fire tragedy case. The verdict came on an appeal filed by Uphaar cinema owners Sushil and Gopal Ansal. The appeal had challenged an earlier verdict that found them guilty of criminal negligence for a fire tragedy in the theatre in the afternoon of June 13, 199...

• Uphaar case: HC to hear appeals on day-to-day basis

  The Delhi High Court would hear the Uphaar cinema fire case appeals filed by convicts, including theatre owners Sushil and Gopal Ansal, on a day-to-day basis from on Monday.

• Uphaar case: Ansals to surrender by 4 pm today

  The Supreme Court on Wednesday cancelled the bail of Gopal and Sushil Ansal, the construction magnates, saying their role in destroying court records in the Uphaar cinema fire was an enormous offence.

• Uphaar case: Musical protest against delay in justice

  The Uphaar tragedy became a show of solidarity when families of the victims came together on Sunday with a different sort of protest against the delay in justice for their lost ones.

• Uphaar case: HC serves notice to CBI

  The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued a notice to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on an application filed by Ansal brothers, owners of Uphaar Cinema, seeking permission for ",productive use", of the hall which was sealed after a fire tragedy which left 59 cinegoers dead 11 years ago.

• Ansal brothers innocent, claims Jethmalani

  Uphaar cinema owners, Sushil and Gopal Ansal, on Monday, claimed innocence in the Delhi High Court. They said the blaze in the theatre, which killed 59 cinegoers in 1997, had started from a negligently repaired Delhi Vidyut Board (DVB) transformer.

• HC decides to hear Uphaar fire victims' plea

  The Delhi High Court on Monday decided to hear a petition filed by Uphaar cinema fire victims seeking enhancement of the two-year jail sentence awarded to the Ansal brothers, owners of the hall, for 59 cinegoers' death in the 1997 tragedy.

• Uphaar case: Summons issued against Ansal brothers

  A court in Delhi on Friday issued summons against real estate barons Sushil and Gopal Ansal besides four others for allegedly tampering with evidence in the Uphaar fire tragedy case.