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American Center convicts get SC reprieve

| | May 21, 2014, at 06:22 pm
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New Delhi, May 21 (IBNS): Death sentences of two people convicted in the 2002 attack on the American Centre in Kolkata that left six policemen dead, were commuted to life imprisonment by the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
The court has commuted death sentence of chief mastermind Aftab Ahmad Ansari and convict Jamiluddin Nasir in the case.

In its order the court said that Ansari will remain behind bars till the end of his life while Nasir will have to be in the jail for at least 30 years without remission.

Six policemen were killed and 14 were injured in a bomb blast at the American Center in Kolkata in 2002.

A court had in April 2005 sentenced Ansari, Nasir and three others to death while acquitting two others.

Five years later in February 2010, the Calcutta High Court confirmed the death sentence of Ansari and Nasir but commuted the capital punishment of the three others to seven years in jail.

 

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