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alleged JKIF militants, given death penalty for triggering the 1996 Lajpat Nagar blast in Delhi and killing 13 people and injuring 38 others, were acquitted on Thursday by the Delhi High Court. The court also converted the death sentence given to their third colleague to life imprisonment.In Srinagar, Patsha Banu, Mirza Nissar Hussain, one of the two acquitted men, broke into tears as she got the news....
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judgment in the Lajpat Nagar market blast case, saying there was "never a case against them".Having argued for Bhatt and Hussain in HC, lawyer Kamini Jaiswal said she was happy that her clients had been proved innocent. "I am happy that two of my clients are out. I have to read the judgment to find out the grounds on which Javed's conviction has been upheld but am happy HC accepted our arguments. We...
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What the trial court believed to be "the basis of conviction" of the accused in the 1996, the Delhi high court described as just a confessional statement of convict Javed Ahmed Khan, "not sufficient" to uphold the guilt of two of the convicts.In April 2010, while convicting two accused — Mohammad Ali Bhatt and Mirza Nissar Hussain — the trial court had relied heavily on the confessional statement of...
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Delhi high court on Thursday told Delhi Police that it had failed to furnish even the "minimum standards of proof" in the 1996 Lajpat Nagar market blast case.It further reminded the police that the "flaw is not in the law but in its understanding and implementation by the police force". It pointed out that "such weaknesses and lapses" result in the state complaining that courts insist on an impossible...
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unassuming Mirza house in sensitive old city is witnessing a sudden stream of people after 16 years. Inside a dimly-lit room, Padshah Begum tries hard to hold back her tears as people congratulate her over the acquittal of her son Mirza Nissar Hussain in the 1996 Lajpat Nagar blasts case.Nissar is Padshah’s second son who was acquitted in the Delhi blast case on Thursday. Her first son Mirza Ifthikar...
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Sixteen years after a powerful bomb blast killed 13 people in the Capital, the Delhi High Court on Thursday let off two convicts sentenced to death and reduced the death penalty of the third to life imprisonment. The court said its verdict was forced by the Delhi Police's shoddy investigation in the case.The high intensity blast at Delhi's popular and perennially overcrowded Lajpat Nagar market on...
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Delhi HC on Thursday set free two men facing death row for the 1996 Lajpat Nagar market blast, saying the Delhi Police had failed to furnish even the "minimum standards of proof" in the case., saying the Delhi Police had failed to furnish even the "minimum standards of proof" in the case.A trial court had awarded death to three persons and sentence another to a life term for carrying out the blast...
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Thanks to the hush-hush manner in which he was executed on Wednesday shortly after the rejection of his mercy petition, Ajmal Kasab had been denied his right to challenge the President's decision.Whatever the justification on security considerations, this deviation from the rule of law has opened India to the charges of discriminating against the Pakistani national.It was on account of this right that...
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DELHI (AFP) - An Indian court on Thursday acquitted two Kashmiri Muslims sentenced to death for a 1996 car bomb attack in a New Delhi shopping arcade that killed 13 people.The two men, Mr Mirza Nissar Hussain and Mr Ali Bhat, were handed death sentences by a lower court in 2010, but the Delhi High Court set them free and slammed police for a poor investigation into the bomb attack.The judges commuted...
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