new delhi a delhi court friday closed a case related to outraging the modesty of association of victims of uphaar tragedy avut chairperson neelam krishnamoorthy in 2007 after she accepted the apologies tendered by the two accused both the accused persons praveen shankar sharma and deepak kathpalia and the complainant krishnamoorthy told the court that they have compromised after their unconditional apologies were accepted by herread alsoi am neelam krishnamurthymy belief in god died forever on june 13 1997 the day my two children died in the uphaar fire tragedysharma and kathpalia were accused of passing lewd remarks against her and clicking her photographs when she had gone to attend the proceedings in the main fire tragedy casepursuant to the compromise entered between both the parties and taking the statement of the complainant chief metropolitan magistrate pankaj sharma on friday compounded the offence against the accusedboth the parties shall abide by the undertaking given in the court not to use the compromise in any legal proceedings or before any authority said the application submitted before the judgein their application tendering apologies both the accused said we regret the alleged incident that happened on may 10 2007 in patiala house courts premises new delhi where the trial of main uphaar case was being conductedwe offer our unconditional apology for the incident we regret the inconvenience and trauma of any kind caused to you krishnamnoorthy by our such actions which were not intentional at all they saidif convicted the accused could get an imprisonment of maximum one yearkrishnamoorthy who lost two minor children in the uphaar cinema fire tragedy and has been fighting a legal battle for justice on behalf of the victims families for the last 20 years had claimed in her complaint that she and her when they were emerging out of the court roomkrishnamoorthy had gone to the court for attending the trial proceedings in the 1997 uphaar fire tragedy case the accused had passed lewd remarks against her and clicked her photographs she saidreal estate barons sushil and gopal ansal were convicted and sentenced to 2year jail term by the supreme court in the main fire tragedy casethe apex court however released them taking into account the prison time they had done on the condition that they pay rs 30 crore fine each to be used for building a trauma centre in the national capitalthe fire had broken out at the uphaar cinema during the screening of the hindi film border on june 13 1997 claiming 59 lives