New Delhi: The Supreme Court has turned down the appeal of the Central Bureau of Investigation to make the pending arguments for the Uphaar fire tragedy case. Claiming that they did not get enough time to argue for the case, the CBI had sought half an hour to present their statements.
Declining CBI's plea for an opportunity to advance arguments on points left out in Uphaar fire tragedy case, the SC has asked the nodal agency to file a review plea in the case. The CBI and the families of the victims of the tragedy will be filing a review petition in the case.
The SC's observations come a day after it refused to send the key accused in the Uphaar case to jail. "It will not be proper. We have already passed the order," a three-judge bench headed by Justice A R Dave said when senior advocate Harish Salve, who has been representing CBI in this case, sought 15 minutes time to argue some of the points in the matter.
During the hearing that is currently underway, the SC is expected to explain the reasoning behind the verdict. The SC had on Wednesday said that theatre owners - Sushil & Gopal Ansal will not be spending any further time in jail. Instead the SC imposed a fine of Rs 60 crore on the Ansal brothers.
The victims of the tragedy have labelled the SC verdict a travesty of justice. 59 people were killed when a fire broke out during a film screening in Uphaar cinema in 1997. A probe later found that there were no emergency lights in the theatre and the exits were blocked. It was also found that the installation and maintenance of the transformer which caused the fire was done illegally.
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