New Delhi: A Delhi Court on Monday (March 15, 2021) awarded the death penalty to convict Ariz Khan within the 2008 Batla House encounter case. The court docket referred to as it a ‘rarest of uncommon case’. The court docket additionally imposed a complete tremendous of Rs 11 lakh.
Ariz Khan is convicted for the homicide of police inspector Mohan Chand Sharma and different offences in reference to the encounter that occurred on September 19, 2008, in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar.
Police had sought the death penalty for Ariz Khan, allegedly related to the phobia outfit Indian Mujahideen (IM), saying it was not simply any killing however a homicide of a regulation enforcement officer who was a defender of justice.
According to Police, Khan was current at Batla House together with 4 others. He had managed to give police the slip in the course of the encounter through which two IM terrorists have been killed and as many arrested.
Two suspected terrorists, Atif Ameen and Mohammad Sajid have been killed whereas two different suspects — Mohammad Saif and Zeeshan have been arrested earlier.
The incident occurred per week after 5 serial blasts had hit Delhi on September 13, 2008, through which at the least 30 folks have been killed and over 100 sustained accidents.
Notably, a trial court docket in 2013 had sentenced the Indian Mujahideen terrorist Shahzad Ahmed to life imprisonment. His enchantment in opposition to the trial court docket`s verdict has been pending within the High Court.
(With inputs from businesses)
