{"id":56224,"date":"2019-05-29T04:31:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T23:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=56224"},"modified":"2019-05-29T04:31:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T23:01:09","slug":"probing-passport-officials-role-in-issuance-of-passport-to-sushil-ansal-police-to-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/probing-passport-officials-role-in-issuance-of-passport-to-sushil-ansal-police-to-high-court","title":{"rendered":"Probing passport officials&#8217; role in issuance of passport to Sushil Ansal: Police to High Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi<\/strong> : The police told the Delhi High Court on Tuesday that it had launched a probe into the role of passport officials in connection with the issuance of the travel document to real estate baron Sushil Ansal, convicted for the 1997 Uphaar cinema fire incident that claimed 59 lives.<\/p>\n<p>The Crime Branch of Delhi Police, in a status 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pursuant to a single-judge order on December 17, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>On December 17 last, the court had directed the police to lodge an FIR in connection with Ansal getting a favourable verification report in 2013, when he had applied for a fresh passport.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, an FIR was registered against Ansal and the police officers who had given the favourable verification report.<\/p>\n<p>The police, on March 13, had told the court that they had started interrogating Ansal as regards the issuance of the passport to him.<\/p>\n<p>The court was hearing a plea moved by the Association of Victims of Uphaar Tragedy (AVUT), through its chairperson Neelam Krishnamoorthy, seeking a CBI probe into the alleged criminal misconduct by passport and police officials in issuing the travel document to Ansal.<\/p>\n<p>On June 13, 1997, a fire in the Uphaar cinema hall in the national capital had killed 59 people during the screening of Hindi film &#8220;Border&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Krishnamoorthy, who lost her two children in the tragedy, has been fighting a legal battle on behalf of the victims&#8217; families for over 20 years now.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court, in 2017, had asked Gopal Ansal, who was also convicted in the case, to undergo the remaining of his one-year jail term in the case, while his elder brother Sushil Ansal got relief from incarceration in view of age-related complications with a prison term already undergone by him.<\/p>\n<p>The AVUT, represented by senior advocate Vikas Pahwa, had earlier alleged in the court that there was a &#8220;nexus&#8221; and &#8220;conspiracy&#8221; between the RPO officials, police officers and Ansal, which had led to the issuance of the passport to the latter, despite being convicted in the Uphaar tragedy case.<\/p>\n<p>The application for a new passport or for re-issuance or replacement of lost or damaged passport issued by the Ministry of External Affairs mandates the applicant to disclose whether he is involved in a criminal case 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