Click to play videoMumbai: Gopal and Sushil Ansal, the owners of Uphaar cinema, have been given fresh bail by the Delhi High Court.
They had to pay a bail amount of Rs 60,000 each. The Ansals' sentence has been suspended till February 15, when the High Court will begin hearing the appeal against their conviction.
A trial court had convicted the brothers to a two-year jail term in November for causing death by negligence, and given them bail soon after.
Fifty-nine people had suffocated to death in a fire in the Uphaar cinema hall in June 1997.
Ansals, 10 others guilty
A Delhi sessions court on November 20 pronounced the much-awaited verdict in the Uphaar cinema hall fire case, holding real estate tycoons Gopal and Sushil Ansal, guilty of criminal negligence.
The two have been convicted under Section 304(A) of IPC, for causing death of a person/persons by rash or negligent act, not amounting to culpable homicide. It's a bailable offence. The Ansals now face imprisonment of at least two years.
In all 12 accused have been held guilty for flouting rules to maximize profits. The CBI, which probed the case, had named 16 people, including the Ansals, in its chargesheet . Four of them died in the interim.
"They have been found guilty under Sections 394(A), 333 and 338, under which the punishment is from two to seven years. The punishment can't be more than this. This is the maximum punishment," Prem Kumar, one of counsels for the Ansals, had said.
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