The Supreme Court of India gave Giving its judgement on 21 March 2013 , after over 20 years of judicial proceedings , upholding the death Death sentence against suspected Suspicion ringleader Yakub Memon while commuting the previous death Death sentences against 10 others to life in prison Prison .

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Toxicology analysis Scrutiny of the balloon pilot , Lance Hopping , after the accident Catastrophe tested Testing positive for tetrahydrocannabinol ( THC ) , suggesting he may have been under the influence of cannabis at the time of the crash Catastrophe , which ultimately led to Causation the error in judgement Deciding .

In February 1991 a civil court judgement awarded Giving 21 of the travellers £24,000 in damages Damaging for false imprisonment Prison , damage Damaging to property and wrongful arrest Arrest .

Delivering its judgement in 1995 , the court found Know that the operation had been in violation of Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights as the authorities ' failure to arrest the suspects at the border , combined Cause_to_amalgamate with the information given Giving to the soldiers , rendered Supply the use of lethal Killing force almost inevitable .

An eighth former employee Employment was also convicted Legal_rulings , but died Death before the judgement was passed Process_end .

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ) in its appeal judgement of Stanislav Galić in 2006 summarized Statement the evidence and ruled Legal_rulings that the conclusion that the shells had been fired Use_firearm from a location occupied by Serbian forces was a reasonable one ; nevertheless , Radovan Karadžić during his trial before ICTY tried to use this claim to his defense , but was found Know guilty .