new delhi the supreme court today declined any relief to gopal ansal and asked him to surrender by evening to undergo oneyear jail term in the 1997 uphaar fire tragedy casea bench comprising chief justice j s khehar and justices d y chandrachud and s k kaul rejected the plea moved by the real estate baron seeking more time to surrender on the ground that he has moved a mercy plea before the presidentsorry we cant the bench said when senior advocate ram jethmalani mentioned the matter and sought more time telling the court that they have already approached the president with their mercy pleathe apex court also rejected the plea from the senior advocate seeking a direction for speedy disposal of his mercy plea pending before the president saying that it cannot interfere in it as it is an exclusive jurisdiction of the presidentthe apex court on march 9 had dismissed ansals petition for parity with his elder brother sushil ansal who was awarded jail term already undergone by him considering his agerelated complications and directed him to surrender by today to serve the prison term69yearold gopal ansal was in jail earlier for around fourandahalfmonth in connection with the case relating to the june 13 1997 fire tragedy in which 59 persons had died in uphaar cinema during the screening of hindi movie borderover 100 people were injured in the subsequent stampedea bench headed by justice gogoi in a 21 majority verdict on february 9 had granted relief to 76yearold sushil ansal considering agerelated complications by awarding him the jail term already undergone and had asked gopal to surrender in four weeks to serve the remaining jail termgopal had thereafter approached the apex court seeking modification of its order on the grounds of parity saying he was 69yearold and would suffer irreparable damage to his health if sent to prisonin its february 9 judgement the apex court had upheld the fine of rs 30 crore each imposed on both the convicts earlier and said it should be utilised for setting up a trauma centreearlier a twojudge bench of the apex court had on march 5 2014 held sushil and gopal ansal guilty but differed on the quantum of sentence to be awarded to them after which the matter was heard by a threejudge benchthe delhi high court on december 19 2008 had awarded oneyear jail term to both sushil and gopal ansal in the case while reducing the twoyear sentence imposed on them by the trial court watch uphaar fire sc declines more surrender time to gopal ansal