Supreme Court Dismisses Petition To Grant Relief To Ashfaq Arif, Guilty In Red Fort Attack Of 2000
New Delhi, 3rd November 2022: Today (November 3), the Supreme Court has refused to grant relief to Mohammad Ashfaq Arif, a convict in the Red Fort attack case in the year 2000. The apex court upheld Arif’s death sentence. A bench headed by Chief Justice UU Lalit dismissed the petition.
Pakistan’s Arif was found guilty of attacking an army barracks in Delhi’s Red Fort in December 2000. Arif, who was considered to be the mastermind of this attack, was sentenced to death by the trial court of Delhi in the year 2005.
In 2007, the Delhi High Court had confirmed the death sentence. In 2011, the Supreme Court also upheld the death sentence of the convict.
