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Uphaar cinema fire tragedy : Supreme Court refuses to strike down Gopal Ansal's jail term

| | Mar 09, 2017, at 06:13 pm
New Delhi, Mar 9 (IBNS) : The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the plea against the jail term of Delhi-based builder Gopal Ansal, sentenced to one-year imprisonment for a fire in south Delhi’s Uphaar Cinema that killed 59 people in 1987, reports said.

A special bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi refused to alter its February verdict and only extended the deadline for Ansal's surrender to March 20 from March 9.

Gopal Ansal's borther  Sushil Ansal, 79, had been granted relief on the grounds of his advanced age. Gopal, 69, had sought similar relief,

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