Why balwant singh killed beant singh

Sikh hardliners claim to have parallely declared him as head priest or Jathedar of the Akal Takht, the supreme temporal seat of Sikhism in Babbar Khalsa militant Jagtar Singh Tara, convicted for life in former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh's assassination case, was today granted bail by a court in Burail jail break case.

Police remand of extradited Babbar Khalsa militant Jagtar Singh Tara was today extended by three days after he was produced in a Patiala court following completion of his five-day custody. After being on the run for over 10 years, Babbar Khalsa militant Jagtar Singh Tara, convicted for life in the then Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh's assassination, was today extradited from Thailand, heading back in the custody of Punjab Police.

More News ». Supreme Court slams clemency politics. Additional solicitor general KM Nataraj, who is appearing for the government, assured the top court that a decision will be taken and the file processed by the home ministry will be sent to the President.

Share Via. By hindustantimes. Get our Daily News Capsule Subscribe. Thank you for subscribing to our Daily News Capsule newsletter.

Rajoana has been in jail for over 25 years now. A resident of Rajoana Kalan village in Ludhiana district, Rajoana was a police constable who had joined the Punjab Police on October 1, Rajoana had also expressed deep anguish over Operation Blue Star and the anti-Sikh riots of I have no repentance of involvement in this murder.

I and Bhai Dilawar Singh prepared this bomb. On August 10, , he asked the Punjab and Haryana High Court Chief Justice for his death penalty case to be considered separate from that of his co-accused, who had challenged the conviction by the trial court. But resentment and anger in some sections of the society led to the Punjab government, then headed by Akali patriarch Parkash Singh Badal, making efforts to stop it.

He ended his five-day hunger strike in after SGPC president Gobind Singh Longowal assured him that his petition will be taken up expeditiously. The Supreme Court Friday questioned the Centre over delay in sending proposal to the President for commuting the death sentence of Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted in the assassination case of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh.

The order has been conveyed to the Punjab and Chandigarh administrations. The family of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, who was killed by a terrorist, will challenge in the Supreme Court the centre's decision to commute Balwant Singh Rajoana's death sentence, the leader's grandson said on Tuesday. Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday differed from a party MP's stand on the commutation of terrorist Balwant Singh Rajoana's death sentence, saying he is against capital punishment.

Ludhiana Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu, who is the grandson of former chief minister Beant Singh, who was killed, has questioned the centre's move, saying Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today said that all cases of death penalty should be commuted to life imprisonment. His comments come after the Home Ministry decided to commute the death sentence of Balwant Singh Rajoana, who was convicted for the assassination of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, to life imprisonment.