CBI moves SC seeking death for Beant Singh's killer
December 05, 2011  11:18

The CBI has approached the Supreme Court seeking death sentence for former Punjab CM Beant Singh's killer Jagtar Singh Hawara.

It may be recollected that the Punjab and Haryana high court in October last year, had commuted the death sentence of Hawara, the mastermind in the Beant Singh assassination case, to life imprisonment, while it upheld the trial court's penalty to the four other accused in the case.

A division bench of the court comprising Justice Mehtab Singh Gill and Justice Arvind Kumar termed the case of Hawara, who was awarded the capital punishment by the trial court in 2007, as a 'boundary line for death' and converted his sentence to life.

"It was found that Hawara was not found near Chandigarh on July 30 and 31 in 1995, his case is boundary line for death. He is sentenced to life and will not be released till death," Justice Gill said while pronouncing the order.

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