New Delhi, February 11 The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear the plea filed by the Uttar Pradesh government challenging the Allahabad High Court order which overturned the death sentences awarded to four accused and life imprisonment to another in the 2007 Rampur CRPF camp terror attack case.
Eight CRPF personnel were killed and five were injured in the attack on their camp in Rampur on the night of December 31, 2007.
A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta issued notices to the accused and posted the matter for hearing after four weeks.
Advocate M S Khan represented the five accused.
The state has challenged the high court's verdict of October 29 last year.
The high court had overturned a trial court order that had awarded capital punishment to four individuals and life imprisonment to another in the case.
It had acquitted Mohd Sharif, Sabauddin, Imran Shahjad, Mohd Farooq and Jang Bahadur Khan on charges of murder and other serious offenses, stating that the prosecution "miserably failed to prove the case against the accused beyond a reasonable doubt".
However, the high court found the five, including Jang Bahadur Khan, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, guilty under Section 25 (1-A) of the Arms Act and sentenced them to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment.
