COURT GRANTS BAIL TO ANSAL BROTHERS
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The Pioneer
Friday, April 23, 2010
Indraprasth aka New Delhi - A Delhi court on Friday granted bail to
Uphaar theatre owners Sushil and Gopal Ansal after they surrendered
before it in a case of destruction of evidence relating to the 1997
fire tragedy that claimed 59 lives.
Metropolitan Magistrate Geetanjali Goel asked the Ansal brothers to
furnish a personal and surety bond of Rs one lakh as a pre-condition
of their release on bail.
Besides Ansals, four other accused-- H S Panwar, Anup Singh,
Dharamveer Malhotra and Prem Prakash Batra, also surrendered in court
and were granted bail on furnishing of personal and surety bond of
the like amount.
Dinesh Chandra Sharma, a sacked record keeper of the court, who had
allegedly helped Ansals in destroying crucial judicial documents, is
already on bail in the case.
The court has now fixed the matter for supplying the copy of the
chargesheet and the other documents to Ansals and others on May 17,
the next date of the hearing.
The police had in 2008 filed a new chargesheet before the court
against Ansal brothers for tampering with judicial records of the
fire in the south Delhi cinema theatre.
The documents said to have been tampered with included a police memo
giving details of recoveries immediately after the incident, Delhi
Fire Service records pertaining to repair of transformer installed
inside Uphaar, minutes of managing director's meetings and four
cheques, the chargesheet said.
Out of the six set of documents, a cheque of Rs 50 lakh, issued by
Sushil Ansal to self, and minutes of the MD's meetings, prove beyond
doubt that the two brothers were handling the day-to-day affairs of
the theatre at the relevant time, it said.
The Ansal brothers had argued that they were not handling the affairs
of the theatre as they had already resigned from the board of
directors of M/s Ansal Theatres and Clubotels Pvt Limited, which
owned the cinema hall.
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