New Delhi: The Centre and the city government were on Wednesday asked by the Delhi High Court to pay Rs 10 lakh each as compensation to relatives of those killed in the September seven blast outside the court. The two governments were also asked by a bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna to pay Rs 10 lakh each to the permanently disabled blast victims.
"The situation in this case is different as it has happened at the doorstep of the temple of justice," the bench observed.
It asked the two governments to share the ex-gratia amount equally and disburse the same within three weeks.
The bench also directed a payment of Rs 3 lakh each to people who suffered grievous injuries and Rs 20,000 each to those who received minor injuries.
In addition, the court also asked the Centre to consider providing education to the victims` children and directed the Delhi government to provide jobs to eligible children of victims. "It was a catastrophe that fell on persons on the way to reach court to get justice," the bench said, recalling the horror of the blast triggered near the court`s reception counter. The blast left 15 people dead and over 70 injured.
Sharma had yestrerday sought confirmation of the death sentence for the three while arguing that the trial court had rightly convicted them and awarded them the capital punishment as there was ample evidence to prove their complicity in the terror act.
A city court had in April 2010 convicted six JKIF militants, awarding death sentence to Mohd Naushad, Mohd Ali Bhatt and Mirza Nissar Hussain and sentencing their accomplice Javed Ahmed Khan to life term.
The other two convicts, Farooq Ahmed Khan and his woman accomplice Farida Dar, who had been held guilty of minor offences under the Explosive Substances Act and the Arms Act, were sentenced to imprisonment for seven years and four years and two months respectively.
PTI