The Supreme Court Bench recently rejected the curative petition filed by an association of victims of the Uphaar Tragedy. (Association of Victims of Uphaar Tragedy v. Sushil Ansal & Anr.).The order dismissing the petition was passed by a Bench of Chief Justice of India SA Bobde and Justices NV Ramana and Arun Mishra on February 13. .On June 13, 1997, a fire broke out at the Uphaar Cinema, situated in Delhi's Green Park area. As a result, fifty-nine people had died of asphyxia, while over a hundred others were injured in the ensuing stampede..In 2017, the Supreme court had granted relief to 78-year-old Sushil Ansal, owner of Uphaar Cinema, considering his advanced age-related complications by awarding him the jail term which he had already served..#Uphaar: Supreme Court partially allows review, sentences Gopal Ansal to one-year imprisonment.However, his younger brother Gopal Ansal was asked to serve the remaining one-year jail term..The Association of Victims of Uphaar Tragedy had filed a curative petition seeking reconsideration of the aforementioned verdict..The Bench held that after going through the curative petition and the relevant documents, no case was made out within the parameters indicated in the decision in Rupa Ashok Hurra v. Ashok Hurra & Another, wherein the concept of curative petition was evolved..[Read the order]
