The Supreme Courtroom Thursday dismissed a evaluate petition by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Mohammad Arif alias Ashfaq towards the dying penalty awarded to him in reference to the 2000 Pink Fort assault case.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit and Justice Bela M Trivedi stated, “We’ve accepted the prayers that digital information have to be positioned in consideration. His guilt is proved. We affirm the view taken by this court docket and reject the evaluate petition”.
Three folks, together with two Military personnel, had been killed within the December 22, 2000 Pink Fort assault. On August 10, 2011, the Supreme Courtroom upheld Arif’s dying sentence and dismissed his attraction difficult the capital punishment awarded to him by a classes court docket in 2005, which had been affirmed by the Delhi Excessive Courtroom. In 2014, the apex court docket had stayed his execution.
Arif, from Pakistan’s Abbottabad, was held to be one of many six terrorists who had sneaked into the seventeenth century monument and opened indiscriminate fireplace on the guards of the seventh battalion of Rajputana Rifles.