Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Nov 3: The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected Mohammad Arif alias Ashfaq’s request for a review of the death penalty sentence it had imposed on him in the 2000 Red Fort attack case.
Two army personnel and a civilian lost their lives in an attack in 2000. The apex court upheld Mohammad Arif’s death sentence and dismissed his review plea.
“We have accepted the prayers that electronic records must be placed in consideration. His guilt is proved. We affirm the view taken by this court and reject the review petition,” said a bench comprising Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit and Justice Bela M Trivedi.
Three days after the attack, Arif was taken into custody. The Delhi High Court upheld his death sentence in September 2007.
On August 10, 2011, the Supreme Court upheld Arif’s execution sentence and denied his appeal against the 2005 death sentence he had received from a sessions court, which the Delhi High Court had previously supported. The supreme court had put a hold on his execution in 2014.
Arif, a resident of Abbottabad, Pakistan, was believed to be one of the six terrorists who broke into the 17th-century monument and opened fire on the Rajputana Rifles’ seventh battalion of guards.
