A Delhi court on Friday granted bail to the theatre owners Sushil and Gopal Ansal in the Uphaar fire tragedy. The bail was granted after both of them surrendered before the Court in a case of destruction of evidence relating to the 1997 fire tragedy that claimed 59 lives. <br/> <br/>Metropolitan Magistrate Geetanjali Goel asked the Ansal brothers to furnish a personal and surety bond of one lakh rupees as a pre-condition of their release on bail. Besides Ansals, four other accused, H S Panwar, Anup Singh, Dharamveer Malhotra and Prem Prakash Batra, also surrendered in court and were granted bail on furnishing of personal and surety bond of the like amount. <br/> <br/>Dinesh Chandra Sharma, a sacked record keeper of the court, who had allegedly helped Ansals in destroying crucial judicial documents, is already on bail in the case. The court has now fixed the matter for supplying the copy of the chargesheet and the other documents to Ansals and others on May 17, the next date of the hearing.<br/> <br/>The police had in 2008 filed a new chargesheet before the court against Ansal brothers for tampering with judicial records of the fire in the south Delhi cinema theatre.<br/>
News On AIR | April 23, 2010 12:05 PM
Ansal brothers get bail in Uphaar fire tragedy case