New Delhi: A Saket court in Delhi will on Monday pronounce the quantum of sentence in the Batla House encounter case. The court had convicted alleged Indian Mujahideen Shehzad Ahmed of murder and attempt to murder charges.
Shehzad also known as Pappu is the lone accused in the case and had been charged with the murder of police officer Mohan Chand Sharma. He faces a maximum sentence of death and minimum of life.
Additional sessions judge Rajender Kumar Shastri had fixed for Monday the order on sentence in the case in which the court had on July 25 found Shahzad guilty of assaulting police officers and obstructing them from doing their duty.
"He (Shahzad) is held guilty of attempting to cause death of head constables Balwant Singh and Rajbir Singh and causing death of Inspector MC Sharma by firing on them," the court had said.
The encounter had taken place at flat number L-18, Batla House at Jamia Nagar locality on September 19, 2008, six days after serial bomb blasts had rocked Delhi, killing 26 people and injuring 133.
The police had reached Batla House on a tip off that some suspected militants involved in the blasts were holed up in the building.
Of the five, who were residing in the flat, Atif Ameen and Mohd Sajid were killed during the encounter in which Inspector Sharma had succumbed to the bullet injuries sustained during the gun fight while head constable Balwant was injured.
Apart from these two, one Ariz Khan alias Junaid had been declared a proclaimed offender while Mohd Saif was not made an accused in this case as according to the prosecution, he had surrendered peacefully and had not played any part in the entire incident.
(With additional inputs from PTI)
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