Just in: Former president of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) and Shiromani Akali Dal MLA Bibi Jagir Kaur has been granted bail.

Jagir Kaur is presently lodged in Kaurthala jail for abduction and causing forcible abortion to her daughter Harpreet Kaur. Harpreet, who had died under mysterious circumstances in April 2000, was cremated the very next day without a postmortem being conducted.

Thereafter, the case was handed over to CBI following judicial intervention. On March 30 this year, a special CBI court in Patiala convicted Bibi Jagir Kaur and three others and sentenced them to five years of rigorous imprisonment.