59 People died in a accident where Ansal brothers were called responsible for the deaths, quoting that they were more interested in making money than ensuring safety of the people and now they got bail just after few months of staying behind the bards.
Isn't the law of my country really vulnerable at times?? And what sort of punishment is Rs. 60 Crore fine to be paid to Delhi Govt? What about those who lost their lives in the incident, nothing in favor of them, not even justice? Just because as mentioned Anshal brothers were more interested in earning money and so they did spend it. But those poor people who lost their lives in the incident did not had enough money to get justice in favor of them? Why is no one twitting or updating about the issue? Why is no one raising the voice against it and why everyone just accepted the decision given by the court?
Agreed to the reasonable mention that it was not done willingly but then the lives were lost and families were scattered. What about them? No money could actually pay the price of a life, but if justice was given on the terms of money then that money should go to the families of those who lost their life, instead on the name of welfare to Delhi Government.
India Today News: Uphaar Tragedy
In a major relief to the Ansal brothers, convicts in Uphaar fire tragedy in Delhi, the Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed them to walk free with a fine of Rs 60 crore.
Awarding the jail term for a period already undergone by the industrialists, the three-judge bench of Justices AR Dave, Kurian Joseph and Adarsh Kumar Goel asked them to pay the total fine of Rs 60 crore in three months and deposit it with the Delhi government, which in turn will spend the money on welfare schemes.
While Sushil Ansal has spent over five months in prison, Gopal has spent jail time of over four months. The bench rejected the submissions of senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for CBI, that the convicts be sent to jail to serve the remaining jail term.
"My instruction from CBI is to press for their custody," Salve said, when the court sought his views.
Senior advocate KTS Tulsi, who represented the Association of Victims of Uphaar Tragedy (AVUT), also said that the convicts not only be jailed, but rather their punishment should be enhanced. Fifty-nine people, trapped in the balcony of the theatre, died of asphyxia following the fire and over 100 were injured in the subsequent stampede on June 13, 1997 during the screening of Bollywood film "Border".
Earlier, a bench of justices T S Thakur and Gyan Sudha Mishra (since retired) had on March 5, 2014, held real estate barons Sushil and Gopal Ansal guilty, but differed on the quantum of sentence to be awarded to them. It had concurred in holding that there was "contemptuous disregard" of civic laws on part of the Ansals that led to the tragedy as they were "more interested in making money than ensuring safety of people".
Justice Thakur had concurred with the 2008 verdict of the Delhi High Court which had awarded one-year jail term to both Sushil and Gopal Ansal. However, Justice Mishra had reduced the jail term to the period already served in jail by Sushil considering his age and enhanced the sentence of Gopal to two years.
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