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Union Minister Prakash Javadekar demanded Sonia Gandhi, Mamata Banerjee and Arvind Kejriwal to apologise to the nation following Delhi court s verdict in Batla House encounter case.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday came down hard at the Congress and other Opposition parties following a Delhi court s verdict awarding death sentence to Indian Mujahideen terrorist Ariz Khan for the murder of decorated Delhi Police Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma in connection with the sensational 2008 Batla House encounter case.Â
Slamming Congress president Sonia Gandhi, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal for raising questions over the encounter, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said the verdict has exposed those who have a habit of sympathising with terrorists.
Batla House case: Court awards death penalty to Ariz Khan
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Mon, Mar 15 2021 18:06 IST |
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New Delhi, March 15 : Thirteen years after the Batla House encounter, a Delhi Court on Monday sentenced Ariz Khan, who was convicted of the murder of inspector Mohan Chand Sharma and other offences, to death.
Additional Sessions Judge Sandeep Yadav called it a rarest of rare case while awarding the death penalty.
The prosecution had sought death penalty for Khan in the case, while the counsel for the convict sought leniency on the ground of his young age.
New Delhi, March 15
A Delhi court Monday awarded death penalty to Ariz Khan for the murder of decorated Delhi Police Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma in connection with the sensational 2008 Batla House encounter case, saying the offence fell under the “rarest of the rare category” warranting the maximum sentence.
Additional Sessions Judge Sandeep Yadav said Ariz be hanged by neck till death.
Inspector Sharma of the police’s special cell was killed during the Batla House encounter between the police and alleged terrorists in Jamia Nagar in south Delhi following serial bomb blasts in the national capital in which 39 people died and 159 were injured.
The court had said on March 8 that it was "duly proved that Ariz Khan and his associates caused murder of police official and fired gunshot on the police official".