|
Indian court sends Hawara's
ex-wife to five year jail
WSN Network
SANGRUR: A lower
Indian court in Punjab has sentenced four accused, including Babbar
Khalsa International chief Jagtar Singh Hawara's former wife
Balwinder Kaur, to five years' rigorous imprisonment.
The judgment was
delivered by Additional Sessions Judge Baljinder Sidhu's fast track
court on Tuesday. The co-accused include Sukhdev Singh of Hizrawa
village in Fatehabad and Pargat Singh and Amarjeet Singh of
Patiala
district.
However, the
accused were acquitted of sedition and other charges.
According to the
prosecution, three of the accused were apprehended with explosives
on June 19, 2005. Co-accused Amarjeet was nabbed on July 8.
Balwinder of
Dohla village under Dhuri police station was allegedly preparing to
be a human bomb and the target was Baba Piara Singh Bhaniarewala and
Ashutosh Noormahlia.
Hawara had
married Balwinder after escaping from Burail Jail. Later, a local
court declared the marriage null and void in ex parte proceedings
after the re-arrest of the BKI chief. Hawara is already convicted in
the Beant Singh assassination case and is on the death row but has
so far refused to file for a mercy petition.
29
July 2009
|
Read Also