A Delhi court will on Monday pronounce the quantum of sentence in the 2008 Batla House encounter case, in which suspected Indian Mujahideen operative Shahzad Ahmad was convicted for killing a police inspector and assaulting other cops.
While pronouncing Shahzad guilty of assaulting police officers and obstructing them from doing their duty, Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri had on July 25 fixed July 29 for pronouncing the quantum of the sentence.
Shahzad was held guilty for murdering police inspector M C Sharma and assaulting other police officers.
The encounter had taken place at flat number L-18, Batla House at Jamia Nagar locality here on September 19, 2008, six days after serial bomb blasts had rocked Delhi, killing 26 people and injuring 133.
Acting on a tip-off on some terrorists involved in the blasts, the police team led by Inspector Sharma went to Batla House on September 19. Sharma was killed during the incident.