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The Year That Was: 2007
Rediff looks back at the highs and lows, the successes and failures, the heroes and villains, the wild and the overblown that made this year.
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Justice for the Uphaar cinema victims
December 06, 2007
In June 1997, during a screening of the film Border at the Uphaar cinema in New Delhi, a fire killed 59 people.
Among the accused were real estate barons Sushil and Gopal Ansal, who own both the Rs 3,000 crore Ansal real estate group and the Uphaar cinema.
After a 10-year trial, in November, seven people -- civic officials and Uphaar cinema staff among others -- were held guilty for culpable homicide not amounting to murder and awarded seven years rigorous imprisonment. The Ansal brothers were also found guilty and sentenced to two years in prison. Unlike the seven others, who were taken into custody after the verdict was pronounced, the brothers obtained bail.
Image: Photographs of those who died in the Uphaar cinema fire | Photograph: Dijeshwar Singh/ Saab Pictures
Also read: Uphaar tragedy: The long struggle for justice
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