6Photo© hindustantimes.com28 sentenced to life for Chandan Gupta’s murder during 2018 Tiranga yatra in Kasganj
“The NIA court has awarded life sentences to all 28 accused in the Chandan Gupta murder case,” district government counsel Manoj Tripathi said after additional sessions judge Vivekanand Saran Tripathi pronounced the verdict on Friday.
On Thursday, the special court convicted the 28 under multiple sections of the penal code including murder and attempt to murder as well as the Prevention of Insult to National Honour Act, 1971. Two other accused, Nasiruddin and Asim Qureshi, were acquitted in the case.
Chandan Gupta was killed on January 26, 2018 during a rally involving large number of motorcycles with the tricolour and saffron flags, led by members of Hindu right-wing outfits, including Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) — the students wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) — in Kasganj city.