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The Delhi High Court on Thursday has upheld Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Mohammad Arifs death sentence in connection with the December 2000 Red Fort attack case.
New Delhi, Sept. 13 : The Delhi High Court on Thursday has upheld Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Mohammad Arif's death sentence in connection with the December 2000 Red Fort attack case.
Mohammad Arif alias Ashfaq had challenged his conviction and death sentence.
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, had on May 4 reserved its verdict on the plea filed by Ashfaq and six others.
However, the court acquitted six other accused - Ashfaq's wife Rehmana Yousuf Farooqui, Nazir Ahmed Qasid and his son Farooq Ahmed Qasid, Bagar Mohsin Baghwala, Sadaqat Ali and Matloob Alam.
Farooqui was 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.
The prosecution was seeking to award her the maximum punishment of life for the offence.
Nazir Ahmed Qasid and Farooq Ahmed Qasid were found guilty of waging war against the state along with Arif, and were awarded life imprisonment.
The Delhi Police was seeking enhancement of their life sentences to death.
Bagar Mohsin Baghwala, Sadaqat Ali and Matloob Alam were each given seven-year prison terms.
The Delhi Police was also seeking to enhance their punishment to a 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 was then an Army base camp, housing about 1,000 soldiers.
ANI
