The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday set aside the death sentences of four men and the life imprisonment awarded to another in connection with the 2007 terror attack on a Central Reserve Police Force camp in Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur, reported The Indian Express .

A division bench of Justices Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra and Siddhartha Varma acquitted all five accused persons, including two Pakistani nationals, citing lapses in the investigation that “went to the root of the case”.

However, the bench sentenced them to ten years’ rigorous imprisonment under a provision of the 1959 Arms Act related to possession of weapons and imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on each.

On December 31, 2007, assailants had opened fire at the CRPF camp, killing seven personnel and a rickshaw-puller, and injurin

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