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Gopal Ansal allowed to travel abroad

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has allowed Gopal Ansal, one of the owners of Ansal Theatre and Clubotels Limited facing prosecution in the Uphaar fire tragedy, to travel abroad, recording in its order that the Central Bureau of Investigation has no objection to the plea.

As many as 59 people were suffocated to death in the Uphaar Cinema fire tragedy here on June 13, 1997, while watching the Hindi movie "Border''.

Allowing the plea, Justice B. N. Chaturvedi said Mr. Ansal could travel before July 2, the next date of hearing to decide his plea to waive off the condition of requiring permission of the trial court for a foreign trip.

"Counsel for the investigating agency has no objection to the petitioner being permitted to travel abroad pending disposal of the petition for quashing of the condition. The petitioner is, in the circumstances, permitted to travel abroad before July 2 with the condition that he would appear in person before the court concerned on the next date,'' the order said.

Before moving the High Court, Mr. Ansal had moved the trial court. But he had withdrawn his bail petition there with the liberty to move the High Court in the face of opposition by Special Public Prosecutor Y. K. Saxena.

Additional Sessions Judge Mamta Sehgal had later dismissed the application as withdrawn.

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