{"id":47308,"date":"2017-03-10T03:10:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T21:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=47308"},"modified":"2017-03-10T03:10:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T21:40:56","slug":"sc-rejects-gopal-ansals-plea-asks-surrender-mar-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-rejects-gopal-ansals-plea-asks-surrender-mar-20","title":{"rendered":"SC rejects Gopal Ansal&#8217;s plea, asks him to surrender on Mar 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_46944\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46944\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/uphaar-fire_650x400_71426057560.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"46944\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/1997-uphaar-fire-tragedy-gopal-ansal-serve-jail\/uphaar-fire_650x400_71426057560\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/uphaar-fire_650x400_71426057560.jpg?fit=650%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"650,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"uphaar-fire_650x400_71426057560\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/uphaar-fire_650x400_71426057560.jpg?fit=640%2C394&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-46944 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/uphaar-fire_650x400_71426057560.jpg?resize=300%2C185&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SC rejects Gopal Ansal's plea, asks him to surrender on Mar 20\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/uphaar-fire_650x400_71426057560.jpg?resize=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/uphaar-fire_650x400_71426057560.jpg?resize=150%2C92&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/uphaar-fire_650x400_71426057560.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46944\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SC rejects Gopal Ansal&#8217;s plea, asks him to surrender on Mar 20<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Real estate baron Gopal Ansal today failed in his last-ditch attempt to avoid serving the remaining period of one-year jail in the Uphaar fire tragedy case as the Supreme Court rejected his appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court dismissed his petition for parity with his elder brother Sushil Ansal, who was awarded jail term already undergone by him considering his &#8220;age-related complications&#8221;, and directed him to surrender on March 20 to serve the prison term.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing, Gopal Ansal&#8217;s counsel Ram Jethmalani claimed that Gopal&#8217;s health has deteriorated and he was &#8220;almost a dead person&#8221;. He also said that Gopal is &#8220;practically living on charity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>67-year-old Gopal Ansal was in jail earlier for around four-and-a-half months in connection with the case relating to the June 13, 1997 fire tragedy in which 59 persons had died in Uphaar cinema during the screening of Hindi movie &#8216;Border&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Over 100 people were injured in the subsequent stampede.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The appeal filed by Gopal Ansal is dismissed,&#8221; a three- judge bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi said after Jethmalani argued that his plea should be considered on &#8220;humanitarian grounds&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>After the bench passed the order, Jethmalani said that the four weeks time given on February 9 to Gopal Ansal to surrender was expiring today and the apex court should grant some more time to him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please give him some more time to surrender,&#8221; he told the bench, also comprising Justices Kurian Joseph and Adarsh Kumar Goel, during the nearly 20-minute proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gopal Ansal will surrender to serve the rest of the sentence imposed on him on March 20,&#8221; the bench said.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing, Jethmalani claimed that Gopal&#8217;s health has deteriorated after the judgement was passed by the trial court in the case and he is suffering from &#8220;cerebral problem&#8221; which &#8220;causes loss of brain and memory&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As compared to my brother Sushil, I (Gopal) have suffered much more. I am also an old man and I have to look after my wife,&#8221; Jethmalani said, adding, &#8220;Kindly give me hearing on humanitarian grounds. I am almost a dead person now&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Uphaar cinema has been closed after the incident and Gopal is &#8220;practically living on charity&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real estate baron Gopal Ansal today failed in his last-ditch attempt to avoid serving the remaining period of one-year jail in the Uphaar fire tragedy case as the Supreme Court rejected his appeal. 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