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Transformer caused fire, contend Ansals

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Press Trust of India

Posted: Mar 11, 2008 at 0051 hrs IST

New Delhi, March 10 Uphaar cinema owners, Sushil and Gopal Ansal, on Monday claimed innocence in the Delhi High Court saying the blaze in the theatre which killed 59 cine-goers in 1997 had started from a negligently-repaired DVB transformer.

“The proximate cause, the nearest to the commission of offence, is the act of Delhi Vidyut Board (DVB) technicians who, on the morning of June 13, 1997, repaired the transformer,” senior lawyer Ram Jethmalani said while defending the Ansal brothers, who were earlier sentenced to two-year jail term in the Uphaar fire tragedy case.

Advancing final arguments before a bench of Justice H R Malhotra, he said the transformer belonged to government-owned DVB, and on the fateful day, it was repaired by DVB technicians.

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