The Supreme Court today asked West Bengal government to table before it all records pertaining to the trial court proceedings of the terrorists' attack on the American Centre in Kolkota in which two of the accused are facing death sentence.
A bench of justices Dalveer Bhandari and AK Patnaik, passed the order after recording an undertaking from the state's counsel Avijit Bhattarcharjee that the documents would be tabled within eight weeks.
The apex court had earlier stayed the death sentence of two of the convicts Aftab Ahmed Ansari and Jamiluddin Nasir, pending the appeal filed by the duo challenging their conviction and sentence.
Two men had indiscriminately fired from an AK-47 assault rifle at policemen outside the American Centre on Jawaharlal Nehru Road in Kolkata on the morning of January 22, 2002, killing six of them and injuring 14 others.
A division bench of the Calcutta high court had in February, 2010, upheld the death sentence of Ansari along with co-accused Jamiluddin Nasir but commuted the capital punishment awarded to three others to seven years imprisonment.
The sessions court had in April, 2005, sentenced Ansari, Nasir and three others to death while acquitting two others.
They were charged with sections 121 (waging war against the state), 121-A (conspiracy), 302 and 9 (murder) and 307 (attempt to murder) of the IPC and 27(3) of the Arms Act.
