Where the case stands in court

But the CBI replied: “Accused has written various letters to the CBI to obtain possession of the cinema building with the ulterior motive of tampering with the primary visual evidence of the place of occurrence, on the pretext of cleaning the building.”

Those chargesheeted include Uphaar cinema owners Sushil and Gopal Ansal; Ansal Group director Rajinder Mohan Puri; Ansal general manager Krishan Lal Malhotra; hall managers Radha Krishan Sharma, Nirmal Singh Chopra and Ajit Choudhary; gatekeeper Manmohan Uniyal; Delhi Vidyut Board inspectors Brij Mohan Satija and Anant Kumar Ghera; DVB senior fitter Bir Singh; retired Public Works Department executive engineer S.N. Dandona; Municipal Corporation of Delhi administration officials Shyam Sunder Sharma and Narayan Dutt; fire service officials Harswarup Panwar and Surendra Dutt.

The CBI divided the accused into two groups in the chargesheet. The first — including Sushil and Gopal Ansal and five others — were chargesheeted under Section 304-A (causing death by negligence) of the Indian Penal Code. The rest were chargesheeted under Section 304 IPC. All the accused are currently on bail.