New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on January 17 issued notices to four convicts in the Parliament attack case on a trial court reference for confirming death sentence on three of the convicts and five years jail term to the wife of one of them.

Taking cognisance of the reference placed before it, a division bench comprising justice Usha Mehra and justice Pradeep Nandrajog directed the Tihar jail superintendent to serve notices on them so that they could mark their presence in the case on February 3.

Under the provision of the law, the capital punishment awarded to a person by the trial court has to be confirmed by higher judiciary not less than a division bench.

A special judge S N Dhingra had sentenced to death two Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) militants – Mohammad Afzal, Shaukat Hussain Guru and a city college lecturer S A R Geelani on December 18, while Shaukat's wife Navjyot Sandhu alias Afsan was awarded five years rigorous imprisonment in the Parliament attack case.

PTI