The convict, Balwant Singh Rajoana, was sentenced to death for the murder of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh who died in a bomb explosion in Chandigarh on August 31, 1995. The Centre had ...

The Supreme Court yesterday(February 4) said that the Union Territory of Chandigarh must be made a party in the petition ...

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convicted in the 1995 assassination case of then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh. "We are granting you time by way of a last chance. Either you take a decision or otherwise we will hear it on ...

The Punjab Government on Tuesday opposed ex-CM Beant Singh murder case convict Jagtar Singh Hawara’s petition seeking his transfer from Tihar Jail to a prison in Punjab, saying he couldn’t be shifted ...

The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Centre to decide on death row convict Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted in the 1995 assassination case of then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh.

Former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh, along with 16 others, lost their lives while a dozen others were injured in a bomb blast in August 1995. Rajoana was arrested on January 27, 1996.

The Supreme Court directed the Centre to decide on Balwant Singh Rajoana's mercy petition by March 18. Rajoana, convicted in the 1995 assassination of Punjab CM Beant Singh, has spent 29 years in ...

Hawara is serving life imprisonment for the rest of his life in the case related to the murder of Beant Singh in a blast at the entrance of the civil secretariat at Chandigarh on August 31 ...

The bench, also comprising Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and K V Viswanathan, was hearing Rajoana's plea seeking directions to commute his death sentence to life term due to the "inordinate delay ...

Beant Singh murder: Punjab govt opposes Hawara's plea for jail transfer in Supreme Court The counsel appearing for Punjab informed the bench that Hawara was earlier lodged in a Chandigarh jail. PTI ...