Wednesday, May 4 2005 18:01 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: After hearing the arguments in the Parliament attack case for almost a year and half, the Supreme Court has reserved its judgement on the two appeals filed by Delhi Police challenging the acquittal of lecturer S A R Geelani and Navjot Sandhu alias Afsan Guru, the lone woman accused in the case.

A Bench comprising Justice P V Reddi and Justice P P Naolekar also reserved its verdict on two appeals filed by the Jaish-e-Mohammed militants Mohd Afzal and Shaukat Hussain Guru, husband of Sandhu, challenging the death sentence awarded to them by the trial court and upheld by the Delhi High Court.

Senior advocate Ram Jethmalani, who defended Geelani in the High Court against the death penalty, also appeared for him in the apex court.

The High Court had acquitted Sandhu of the charge of not disclosing the conspiracy to attack Parliament House to the police.

However, the High Court has upheld the trial court judgement awarding death sentence to Afzal and Shaukat for waging war against the State.

Senior advocate Gopal Subramaniam and Mukta Gupta argued the case for the Delhi Police.

The apex court had stayed the execution of death award to the two accused till the pendency of the appeals.

Five terrorists, who had attacked Parliament on December 13, 2001, had died in the ensuing gun battle with the security force. Besides, nine people had died and 13 were injured.