HC notices CBI over Uphaar Cinema Complex
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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today issued notice to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Delhi government, over the rights of Uphaar Cinema complex impounded by the Court, after the Uphaar cinema owners moved the court seeking permission to put the hall to productive use. Justice H R Malhotra today admitted the petition and sought reply by CBI till April 24, 2008 the next date of hearing.
Sushil Ansal, the owner of the cinema and a prime convict of the tragedy filed the petition seeking rights to sell the property of Uphaar cinema complex in order to compensate the victims.
Earlier, the apex court had refused to interfere into the matter and asked Ansal to first appeal before the High Court under which, the case is subjugate.
Both Sushil and Gopal Ansal were convicted by trial court in 2007 and were released on bail. According to the trial court judgment, Ansals brothers have to pay compensation to the victims? family.
Over the same, Ansal brothers expressed that they are undergoing through a financial crises and in order to pay the compensation, and that they have to sell the Cinema Complex. “We have been deprived of running our business by putting the property to any productive use,” they contended and said the revenue collected from the hall would contribute to the government exchequer.
The Uphaar cinema hall was sealed following a fire in 1997 that killed 59 people.
Further, theatre owners Sushil Ansal and his brother Gopal Ansal, who were sentenced to two years in jail by the trial court for causing death due to negligence, appealed in their application that the property should be handed over to them as the trial in the fire tragedy case was over.
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Sushil Ansal, the owner of the cinema and a prime convict of the tragedy filed the petition seeking rights to sell the property of Uphaar cinema complex in order to compensate the victims.
Earlier, the apex court had refused to interfere into the matter and asked Ansal to first appeal before the High Court under which, the case is subjugate.
Both Sushil and Gopal Ansal were convicted by trial court in 2007 and were released on bail. According to the trial court judgment, Ansals brothers have to pay compensation to the victims? family.
Over the same, Ansal brothers expressed that they are undergoing through a financial crises and in order to pay the compensation, and that they have to sell the Cinema Complex. “We have been deprived of running our business by putting the property to any productive use,” they contended and said the revenue collected from the hall would contribute to the government exchequer.
The Uphaar cinema hall was sealed following a fire in 1997 that killed 59 people.
Further, theatre owners Sushil Ansal and his brother Gopal Ansal, who were sentenced to two years in jail by the trial court for causing death due to negligence, appealed in their application that the property should be handed over to them as the trial in the fire tragedy case was over.
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