A Delhi court last week ordered framing of charges against Sushil Ansal, convicted in the 1997 Uphaar cinema fire that killed 59 people, for alleged procurement of passports on “false information”.

“The Accused thus, has induced the authority into acting in a certain way based on false/deficient information, benefiting therefrom, by way of gaining wrongfully by being issued the passport, thereby committing offences punishable under Sections 420 IPC and Section 12 of the Passports Act,” said Chief Judicial Magistrate Shriya Agrawal on November 28.

The case stems from a Delhi High Court order passed in December 2018 on a petition filed by the Association of the Victims of Uphaar Tragedy (AVUT).

Ansal had allegedly concealed the details of criminal cases pending against him and had obtai

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