Uphaar fire case: Delhi court order on Friday

New Delhi: The Delhi Court is scheduled to pronounce the order on Friday in a case related to disruption with evidence in the issue of the 1997 Uphaar API tragedy involving Baron Real Estate Sushil and Gopal Ansal.
Metropolitan Chief Magistrate Pankaj Sharma ordered orders on Thursday after the conclusion of the last argument in this matter.
This case is related to interference with the evidence of the main case of the fire tragedy that has claimed 59 lives, where Ansals was punished and sentenced to two years in prison by the Supreme Court.
However, the APEX court released them in a period that had experienced prison with the condition that they paid Rs 30 Crore well to be used to build a trauma center in the national capital.
Ansal brothers along with the court staff of the Sharma Dinesh Chand, and other individuals – P P Battra, Har Swaroop Panwar, Anoop Singh, and Dharamvir Malhotra – ordered in this case.
Panwar and Malhotra died during the trial.
Senior Advocate Vikas Pahwa, emerged for the association of victims of the Uphaar Tragedy (AVUT), told the court on Thursday that Ansals and HS Panwar hatched a criminal conspiracy of the most vital destruction of evidence collected by them in the main Uphaar case.
“The documents are chosen themselves and damaged, mutilated, torn and some also disappear,” he told the court.
The prosecution claims that ancals are required in the main cases and illegally “mutilated, destroyed or eliminated documents”, manifest their involvement in the daily function of the iPhaar cinema.
It was said that Ansals had taken defense in the main case that they did not have involvement in the daily function of the iPhaar cinema.
Damaging was detected for the first time on July 20, 2002, and when it was excavated, the department’s investigation was initiated against Dinesh Chand Sharma and he was suspended.
Then an investigation was carried out and he was stopped from the service on June 25, 2004.
The prosecution said that after termination, Ansal brothers helped Sharma get a job with a monthly salary of Rs 15,000.
When the case is registered, company documents, where Sharma employs post suspensions, increasingly damaged by the chairman Anoop Singh.
Police Delhi previously told the court that destroying evidence by real estate baron erodes trust and trust in ordinary people in the criminal justice delivery system.
It is said that the tragedy of Fire Cinema Upaar is the most sensitive case of the city at the time and damages documents in such cases cannot be taken lightly.
According to the filling sheet, the documents suspected of being damaged by police memos that provided details of recovery immediately after the incident, Delhi fire service records related to transformer improvements installed in Uphaar, minutes of the Managing Director’s Meeting, and four checks.
Of the six sets of documents, check Rs 50 Lakh, issued by Ansal Sushil for themselves, and a few minutes from the MD meeting, it was proven without a doubt that the two brothers handled everyday theater affairs in relevant times, the word fluid said.
The fire broke out in the cinema of Uphaar during the screening of the Hindi film ‘border’ on June 13, 1997, claiming 59 lives.
The case was filed towards the Delhi High Court while hearing the petition by the Afut Chairson Neelam Krishnameorthy.
The defendant was indicted by a violation below, 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 109 (abetment), 201 (causing loss of violations), and 409 (criminal violations) IPC.