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SC confirms death sentence for Red Fort attacker

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 10, 2011, 11:14

Tags: Red Fort, Supreme Court, Lashkar-e-Toiba

SC confirms death sentence for Red Fort attacker

Zeenews Bureau

New Delhi: The Supreme Court, Wednesday, upheld the death sentence awarded to Lashkar-e-Toiba militant Mohammad Arif alias Ashfaq in the Dec 22, 2000 Red Fort shootout case.

Arif had challenged the Delhi High Court verdict upholding his death sentence by the trial court of Additional Session Judge OP Saini.

He was convicted for murder, waging war against the government of India and conspiracy.

Militants stormed the Red Fort Dec 22, 2000 and attacked an Army camp. Their indiscriminate firing resulted in the death of three army personnel.

Eleven accused including Arif were put to trial and the (trial) court by its Oct 24, 2005 order sentenced Arif to death and six others to varying sentences. It acquitted the other four.

Arif appealed in High Court against the trial court verdict. The High Court confirmed the death sentence awarded to him, but acquitted the other six Sep 13, 2007.

First Published: Wednesday, August 10, 2011, 10:53

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Tariq Mehmood - Islamabad
this is not jistice. becouse he is not involved dirctly in this case. he did not kill any body.some body use him to visit red fort.

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Jaggs Misra - New Delhi
i must appreciate the verdict of s.c. all the people who commit crime must be awarded punishment and for gruesome murder of innocent people no matter done by militants or any other criminal must be given death sentence and it should be acted in due frame. accused must be put for punishment immediately.

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Rajesh - Amravati
he will approach to president and will be alive fo 10 years. indian tax payers will have to feed him biryani, chiken etc. for 10 years. this is because our week laws. shame on govt. and laws.

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Kanwal jit Singh Gill - Surrey, Canada
i agree with supreme court decision that person guilty of killing innocent persons should be punished. but i have one question to the justice system, politicians and media etc. who clam that india has very fair and equal justice and law for everybody in india. then why do we only see the justice system give death sentence or strict punishment to guilty people belonging to minorities ? why the justice system has failed to punish the guilty persons who killed thousands of innocent persons in 1984 sikh genocide, or killed thousands of muslims in 2002 gujrat masscare, or killed hundreds of christians in orissa ? why are all those guilty persons walking around freely and the justice system not doing anything to punish them ? can you still claim that india has very fair and equal justice for everybody ? doesn`t it prooves that india has double standards of justice system that quickly acts against guilty persons belonging to minorities and let the guilty persons belonging to majority walk around freely without any charges ? the media should ask these questions to ruling political parties and justice system. and every politicain who claims fair and equal justice system should be ashamed of these double standards of justice system.

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Vinay - US - Chicago
each action has equal and opposite reaction. i learned this when i was a student 10 years back. i remember the era when i was daily hearing the news of hindu`s being pulled out of the bus in punjab and killed by sikh terrorist. similar on the lines was gujrat or orrisa where mass coversion was organised. all these were started by minorities so what to do ?

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AKK - NEW DELHI
while sitting in canada and enjoying life of other country, please do not try to divide our country into moajority, minority, hindu, sikh, muslims, christans. call all of us indians and you are right let guilty be punished. and hanged

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narasimhan - india
respected sir, actually in india majority (hindus ) have suffered a lot. think of thousands of hindus killed in punjab by militants, think of thousands of hindus being killed regularly in kashmir, think about thousands who have been killked in the north eastern states were hindus are in minority.kashmiri pandits have been driven out of their land long before gujarat riots. they are still to return.no one has been punished. north east rebels have been .......think over who is suffering in india.think about the top politicians in india and you wiil understand the situation

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govind - hyderabad
why only arif, others like gul mohd (parliamant attacker and kasab also shold be hanged to death. no mercy to such terrorists.

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Amrut - Mumbai
i think it is the right precedent. it should be sooner followed by death sentence to ajmal kasab.

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AKK - NEW DELHI
one more sarkar ka son in law in making

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D.N.MAKHIJA - DELHI-(INDIA)
now he will be the vip guest like many waiting the death sentence....

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D.N.MAKHIJA - DELHI-(INDIA)
now he will be the vip guest like many waiting the death sentence....

govind - hyderabad
why only arif, others like gul mohd (parliamant attacker and kasab also shold be hanged to death. no mercy to such terrorists.

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