Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Patiala House court on Wednesday is likely to announce the quantum of sentence to a retired lieutenant colonel who was convicted for murdering Krishan Sikand.
Sikand was killed by a parcel bomb sent by S J Choudhary in 1982. CBI proved in the court that Chaudhary killed Sikand because he did not approve of Sikand’s plans to get married to his ex-wife.
The murder trial began in 1984 and since then Sikand's father, now 98 years old, has been fighting the case.
After 26 years of trial and examination of documents running to thousand pages, Choudhary was found guilty under the explosives act and Section 302 of IPC. He can be sentenced for life imprisonment or even death.
Chaudhary had access to the explosives, which the Indian Army had seized from Pakistan during the 1971 war. He used a grenade from this ordinance to make the parcel bomb.
The sentence in this case will be pronounced on April 30, and the convict now literally hangs between life and death.
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