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Bail of accused cancelled

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Saturday cancelled the bail of a dismissed court clerk who is facing prosecution for allegedly removing, tampering and mutilating several important documents related to the Uphaar fire tragedy case.

As many as 59 cinemagoers had lost their lives in the Uphaar Cinema fire here in the Capital on June 13, 1997.

A lower court had earlier granted the bail to clerk Dinesh Chandra Sharma in the case on December 4.

The Economic Offences Wing of the Delhi police had arrested the clerk last November following registration of a case on a Delhi High Court direction following a petition by the president of the Association of the Victims of Uphaar Tragedy (AVUT), Neelam Krishnamurthy.

Seeking cancellation of his bail, the police filed an affidavit by Amit Rao, Investigating Officer in the case, which claimed that the accused had tampered with important evidence of the Uphaar cinema fire tragedy case when he was on bail.

Cancelling the bail of the accused, ACMM Kamini Lau said: "The accused has misused the liberty of bail by hampering the investigation and tampering with evidence of the case against him.''

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