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The Delhi High Court will pronounce its judgement in the December 2000 Red Fort attack case today.
New Delhi, Sept. 13 : The Delhi High Court will pronounce its judgement in the December 2000 Red Fort attack case today.
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Mohammad Arif alias Ashfaq has challenged his conviction and death sentence in the case in which three Army personnel were killed.
Arif has been sentenced to death under Sections 302 and 121 (waging or attempting to wage war or abetting the waging of war against the Government) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
A division bench, comprising Justices R S Sodhi and P K Bhasin, earlier on May 4 had reserved its verdict on the plea filed by Ashfaq and six others.
Ashfaq's wife Rehmana Yousuf Farooqui has been found guilty under section 216 IPC (harbouring an offender) and 218 IPC (trying to save a person from punishment) for providing shelter to the LeT militant and has been given a seven-year jail term.
Prosecution has sought that she should be awarded maximum punishment of life for the offence
Two key conspirators, Nazir Ahmed Qasid and his son Farooq Ahmed Qasid have been held guilty of waging war against the state along with Arif, and have been awarded life imprisonment.
Delhi Police has sought enhancement of their life sentence into death.
The other three convicts, Bagar Mohsin Baghwala, Sadaqat Ali and Matloob Alam have also been given seven-year prison terms.
Delhi Police has sought that their punishment should also be enhanced to life sentence.
The trial court had convicted the seven people while acquitting four others (Rajeev Kumar Malhotra, Devinder Singh, Moolchand Sharma and Shahanshah Alam) in the case on October 24.
Two security personnel and a civilian were killed when two LeT militants stormed the 17th century monument, on December 22, 2000 and opened indiscriminate fire.
A large section of the historical fort has been an Army base camp and housed about 1,000 soldiers.
ANI
