new delhi a delhi court on wednesday sought responses from the government and the association of victims of the uphaar tragedy avut on appeals challenging the 7year prison terms handed down to real estate barons sushil and gopal ansal for tampering with evidence in the 1997 uphaar cinema fire which claimed 59 livesadditional sessions judge anil antil issued notice on the plea filed by the ansal brothers challenging their conviction and the jail term by a magisterial court here on mondayuphaar fire tragedy delhi court awards 7year jail terms to real estate barons sushil and gopal ansal in evidence tampering casethe judge also sought a report from the medical superintendent of tihar jail after senior advocate p k dubey appearing for gopal ansal submitted that his client was suffering from certain ailmentsduring the hearing the accused objected to the locus of avutthe sessions court also directed the accused to serve the copy of the appeal to the association after its counsel senior advocate vikas pahwa opposed their submissiona magisterial court on monday had also imposed a fine of rs 225 crore each on the ansalsthe court had also awarded 7yearjail term each to former court staff dinesh chand sharma and two others p p batra and anoop singh and a fine of rs three lakh each on the themthe case is related to tampering with the evidence in the main fire tragedy case in which the ansals were convicted and sentenced to 2year jail term by the supreme courtthe 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