Click to play videoNew Delhi: When she started her fight for justice 12 years back Neelam Krishnamoorthy never thought that one day the courts would let her down. The bail for the Ansal brothers in the Upahaar case has left her disappointed.
“I am very dissatisfied, very disillusioned. The Ansals have been successful in what they wanted to do, they wanted to bench hunting and they have been successful,” says Neelam Krishnamoorthy.
It has been a long battle Neelam, her two children were among the 59 killed in the accidental fire at the Uphaar cinema. She had hopes of justice when the trial court in November 2007 sentenced the Ansals to two year Rigrous Imprisonment.
However, the HC in December 2008 reduced the quantum of sentence by half. But the real shocker came when the Ansals refused to present their case in front of B N Aggarwal, a judge who had already denied the brothers bail plea.
Lawyers representing the families of victims said that it was grossly improper for the defense to circulate a letter of this kind and such an act would definitely undermine the authority of the highest court in the country
The Ansals have welcomed the courts decision saying they are confident they will eventually be acquitted. The victims’ families vow to fight on.
“We have a civil matter pending in the court for the last seven years and I don’t know will it take 10 years or if I will be alive to see the judgment,” says Shekhar Krishnamoorthy.
Meanwhile the families of the victims have applied for an enhancement of sentence. The SC has sent the Ansal brothers a notice, asking them why their sentence should not be enhanced.
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