Convicts likely to be sentenced tomorrow in Lajpat Nagar blast
The pronouncement of the sentence was deferred on April 17 for tomorrow as District and Sessions Judge SP Garg, who had earlier heard arguments on sentencing, was on leave.
A Delhi court is likely to pronounce tomorrow the sentence against six militants of Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Front (JKIF) in the 1996 Lajpat Nagar blast case in which the prosecution had sought death penalty for four of the convicts.
The pronouncement of the sentence was deferred on April 17 for tomorrow as District and Sessions Judge SP Garg, who had earlier heard arguments on sentencing, was on leave.
Earlier, six out ten suspected militants of JKIF were convicted by the court which had rapped the police for its "highly defective" probe in the case and callous attitude.
Advancing arguments on quantum of sentence, prosecutor SK Dass had submitted that the four convicts, who were held guilty of heinous offences, did not deserve leniency and be awarded death penalty.
The prosecutor also demanded the maximum prescribed sentences against Farooq Ahmed Khan and a lone woman convict Farida Dar who were convicted under milder penal provisions of the Explosive Substances Act and the Arms Act.
The plea was vehemently opposed by the defence counsel of the six convicts.