Hearing on death sentence of Jaipur blast convicts deferred

JAIPUR: The Rajasthan HC has deferred the hearing on appeal on the death sentence of Jaipur blast convicts till November last week considering the time required to translate the documents.

The division bench of Chief Justice Indrajit Mahanty and Justice

Prakash Gupta

gave the interim order during the hearing of the death reference of four convicts and the appeal against the acquittal of Shahbaz by the state government.

The petition said that separate appeal petition had to be filed by the four death convicts in the case which requires translation into English of about 21,000 pages of documents which is time consuming. It was prayed that as per the Supreme Court directions, all documents related to the case be translated to English. Accepting the plea, the high court deferred the hearing of the case to November last week.

Earlier on May 18, the court had directed the counsels of the convicts to put forward their arguments in writing.

On September 20 last year, the special NIA court convicted

Mohamad Salman

,

Mohammad Saif

, Saifur Rehman and Mohammad Sarwar to death sentence in the May 13, 2008 serial blasts in Jaipur. One accused Shahbaz was acquitted in the case.