A Delhi Court on Monday awarded death penalty to Ariz Khan in the 2008 Batla House encounter case for killing a cop. He has also been fined Rs 11 lakh, reports PTI. Khan has been convicted for the murder of police inspector Mohan Chand Sharma in the Batla House case.

The court called the case ‘rarest of rare case,’ and said that Rs 10 lakh should be released immediately to Sharma’s family.

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For Sharma’s murder, police sought death penalty for Khan, who is allegedly associated with the terror outfit Indian Mujahideen. Police said that it was not just any killing but a murder of a law enforcement officer who was a defender of justice. 

On March, the Delhi court said it was “duly proved that Ariz Khan and his associates caused the murder of police official and fired gunshot on the police official”.

Inspector Sharma of the special cell was killed during the 2008 Batla House encounter in Jamia Nagar in south Delhi.

The trial court had sentenced Indian Mujahideen terrorist Shahzad Ahmed in July 2013 to life imprisonment in connection with the case. His appeal against the verdict has been pending in the high court.

Ariz Khan had fled from the spot and was declared proclaimed offender. He was arrested on February 14, 2018, and faced the trial.