REAL ESTATE tycoons Gopal and Sushil Ansal, on Wednesday, surrendered before the Patiala House Court after Supreme Court cancelled their bail, stating that their role in destroying court records in the Uphaar Cinema fire case was criminal. Their bail plea was rejected yesterday (September 10).
The two brother were sent to 14-day judicial custody.
Ansals were given two years in jail in the Uphaar Cinema case but if they are found guilty of destroying evidence, they could face up to seven years in prison.
Apex Court in its order maintained that tampering with court record was a serious offence and bail should not have been granted to the accused.
Ansals were held guilty in 2007 and charged with criminal negligence, 10 years after 59 people were choked to death in South Delhi’s Uphaar Cinema owned by them.
There was a fire in the cinema hall after a short circuit, but the people could not escape as the exits were blocked. In 2007, the court convicted the brothers and sentenced them to two years in prison.
The latest Supreme Court directive comes in wake of the fact that evidence that they attempted to destroy documents that prove their day-to-day involvement with the running of Uphaar Cinema.
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