Additional Sessions Court Judge Sanjeev Yadav ruled that the case fell under the rarest of rare cases and merited a death sentence.
A Delhi court has sentenced to death Ariz Khan, who was recently convicted in the 2008 Batla House encounter case.
Additional Sessions Court Judge Sanjeev Yadav ruled that the case fell under the rarest of rare cases and merited a death sentence.
The Delhi Police had sought a death sentence for the convicted Indian Mujahideen terrorist for killing Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma and grievously injuring some other officers during the September 19, 2008 raid on a flat in Jamia Nagar's Batla House apartment.
During the Batla House raid, which was part of the police probe into the Delhi serial blasts case earlier that year, Inspector Sharma and members of his special cell were trapped by Ariz and two other terrorists.
In the ensuing gunbattle, Inspector Sharma and his colleagues sustained bullet injuries while Ariz managed to flee. Inspector Sharma succumbed to gunshot injuries.
Two suspected terrorists -- Atif Amin and Mohammed Sajid -- were killed in the Batla House encounter. Ariz was declared absconder and was finally nabbed in 2018 from Banbasa at the India-Nepal border.
In 2013, co-accused Shahzad was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.