Ansal brothers get bail in Uphaar cinema case
April 23rd, 2010 - 3:56 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, April 23 (IANS) A city court Friday granted bail to Uphaar theatre owners Sushil and Gopal Ansal after they confessed to destroying evidence in the fire tragedy which killed 59 people in June 1997.
Metropolitan Magistrate Gitanjali Goel ordered the Ansals to furnish a personal and surety bond of Rs.1 lakh each for their bail.
The court also granted bail to four other accused — H.S Panwar, Dharamveer Malhotra, Prem Prakash Batra and Anup Singh — and asked them to pay surety bonds for similar amounts.
A court had convicted 12 people, including theatre owners Sushil and Gopal Ansal, in the Uphaar fire tragedy on Nov 20, 2007.
Fifty nine people died because of asphyxia in the packed Uphaar cinema hall in south Delhi after a fire broke out in the theatre. Over a hundred other people received injuries in a subsequent stampede.
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