10 policemen punished for faking Delhi encounterA court here on Wednesday awarded life term to suspended ACP S S Rathi and nine other policemen, convicted for killing two businessmen in a fake encounter in Connaught Place on March 31, 1997. On October 16, the court had held all the accused policemen guilty. NEWSLINE15 held guilty for Kanpur killings after Babri fall Fifteen persons were sentenced to life imprisonment by a Kanpur court on Wednesday in connection with the 1992 riots. On Tuesday, they were convicted for murder and other crimes during the riots. The accused were found guilty of burning 11 Muslims, including a woman and a child, to death in the Govind Nagar area of Kanpur on December 10, 1992. P 9Basha, 22 others jailed for plotting against AdvaniS A Basha, founder-leader of the banned Al-Umma, and Mohammed Ansari, its general secretary, were among 23 convicts who were awarded life imprisonment for conspiring to eliminate BJP leader L K Advani during his visit to the city on February 14,1998, by triggering a series of bomb blasts which claimed 58 lives.
