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Red Fort attack: SC stays Ashfaq`s death |
2007-12-04 |
![]() On Sep 13, 2007 Delhi High Court had upheld Ashfaq`s death sentence, while acquitting six others convicted for the terror attack on Dec 22, 2000, which had resulted in the death of three army personnel deployed there. A division bench of the high court, comprising Justice R.S. Sodhi and Justice P.K. Bhasin, had acquitted the six others who were sentenced to different jail terms by a trial court in 2005. The trial court had awarded the death sentence to Ashfaq and life imprisonment to Nazir Ahmed Quasid and his son, Farooq Ahmed Quasid. The high court acquitted Nazir Ahmed, Farooq Ahmed, Ashfaq`s wife Rehmana Yusuf Farooqui, Matloob, Babar Mohsin and Sadaquat Ali in the case. Ashfaq was sentenced under Section 121 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for waging war against the government and Section 302 for committing the murder of three army personnel. Upholding Ashfaq`s sentence, the high court had said: "Ashfaq was responsible for the attack, and the attack was the result of a well-planned conspiracy by him and some other militants." |
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