Ansals' Allowed To Go To Trial Court To De-Seal Delhi's Uphaar Cinema Hall
NDTV
A bench of Justices KM Joseph, BV Nagarathna, and Ahsanuddin Amanullah directed said the trial court may decide the plea, if moved by the firm within 10 weeks.
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Ansal Theaters and Clubotels Private Ltd, whose former directors were real estate barons Sushil Ansal and Gopal Ansal, to move the trial court for de-sealing of Uphaar cinema hall where 59 cinema-goers had lost their lives in a blaze in 1997.
A bench of Justices KM Joseph, BV Nagarathna, and Ahsanuddin Amanullah directed said the trial court may decide the plea, if moved by the firm within 10 weeks, in accordance with the law.
The top court recorded the submissions of Delhi Police and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), represented by Additional Solicitor General KM Nataraj, that they do not have any claim over the property.
Mr Nataraj said the due process under the law needs to be followed, for which the appropriate forum is the trial court, from where the property which was under investigation can be sought to be de-sealed.
