New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Thursday sentenced Pakistani national Mohammed Arif alias Mohammed Ashfaq to death while acquitting six others in the December 2000 Red Fort shootout in which three people were killed.
A division bench headed by Justice R.S. Sodhi held Ashfaq, a Lashkar-e-Taiba militant, guilty of waging war against the state in the terror attack on Dec 22, 2000, in which one civilian and two soldiers of the Rajputana Rifles were killed.
The court acquitted six others – Sadakat Ali, Rehmana Yusuf Farooqui, Matloob Alam, Farooq Ahmed Qasid, Babar Mohsin Baghwala and Nazir Ahmed convicted by the subordinate court – due to lack of evidence.