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Three convicted in Dabwali fire case

A court in Ambala in Haryana on Wednesday convicted three persons in connection with the devastating fire at a school function at Dabwali in 1995 which killed 441 persons, mostly school children, and injured 145 others.

Special CBI magistrate A K Tyagi sentenced Kewal Krishan Dhamija (owner of Rajiv Marriage Palace) and Rajinder Kumar and Devi Lal (both electricians) to two years of imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5,000 each under section 304 A (culpable homicide not amounting to murder).

Magistrate Tyagi also sentenced all three of them to two years of imprisonment and a fine of Rs 1,000 each under section 338 (causing grievous hurt). Both the sentences would run concurrently, the judge ordered.

PTI

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