New Delhi: Real estate barons Sushil and Gopal Ansal on Wednesday escaped being jailed in the 18-year-old gruesome Uphaar Cinema fire tragedy in which 59 people died with the Supreme Court asking them to pay a fine of Rs 30 crore each.
The Supreme Court also restricted the brothers’ jail term to the period already undergone by them. Over turning the pleas of the Central Bureau of Investigation, and the victims’ association, a three-judge bench of Justices A.R. Dave, Kurian Joseph and Adarsh Kumar Goel asked them to pay the total fine of Rs 60 crore in three months and deposit it with the Delhi government, which will spend the money on welfare schemes.
While Sushil had spent over five months in prison, Gopal was in jail for over four months immediately after the tragedy.
