<span style="color: #222222;">The Supreme Court has dismissed the curative petition filed by an association of the victims of the 1997 Uphaar cinema fire tragedy case, sparing the Ansal brothers further jail term.&nbsp;A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice S A Bobde, and Justices N V Ramana and Arun Mishra while rejecting the petition said, there is no case made out.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' On February 9, 2017, the apex court had by a 2:1 majority verdict given relief to 78-year-old Sushil Ansal considering his advanced age-related complications by awarding him the jail term which he had already served.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' It had, however, asked his younger sibling Gopal Ansal to serve the remaining one-year jail term in the case.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />''<br />''The association of victims, through its president Neelam Krishnamoorthy, had sought reconsideration of the verdict by filing the curative plea.</span><br />
News On AIR | February 20, 2020 2:03 PM
Uphaar tragedy: SC dismisses curative plea by victims; no further jail term for Ansal brothers