New Delhi: Former Punjab Minister and Akali Dal leader Bibi Jagir Kaur got bail on Thursday in criminal case against her teenaged daughter. Kaur was awarded a jail term for five years for subjecting her daughter to forced abortion and also for abducting her.
Kaur was accused of murdering her daughter over her marriage with a person from a lower caste. Kaur was found guilty of forcing her daughter Harpreet to undergo an abortion in 2001. Harpreet, Kaur's 19-year-old daughter, had died under mysterious circumstances during the intervening night of April 20 and 21, 2000.
No postmortem was conducted after her family claimed there was no foul play and that Harpreet had died due to severe dehydration, vomiting and fever. She was cremated at Kaur's native Begowal village in Kapurthala. On March 30, Kaur was given a five-year sentence under section 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC and other charges and was also fined Rs 5,000 by the special CBI court.
The 57-year-old minister, who was the lone woman face in the Parkash Singh Badal-led SAD-BJP government, was forced to resign as minister after her conviction....
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12:50 PM, Nov 01, 2012
Kapurthala: Four months after her arrest, former Punjab Minister Bibi Jagir Kaur was on Wednesday released on parole from Kapurthala jail, where she was lodged after being convicted of various criminal offences against her teenaged daughter. Kaur was sentenced to five years imprisonment by a CBI court in Patiala for forcing her daughter Harpreet Kaur to abort - who later died under mysterious circumstances. "Kaur has been given parole for...
07:55 PM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: In what may prove to be a major embarrassment for the Punjab Police, IG Prisons Jagjit Singh was caught on camera bowing before former Akali minister Bibi Jagir Kaur who is in jail for forcible abortion of her daughter. Ironically, IG Jagjit Singh had been given the task of investigating the alleged VIP treatment being given to the former SGPC chief in jail. But he was seen standing...
01:16 PM, Jul 16, 2012
Chandigarh: Punjab Agriculture Minister Tota Singh was found guilty in a corruption case by a trial court in Mohali adjoining Chandigarh on Saturday. He has been sentenced to one-year imprisonment and a fine of Rs 30,000. However, Tota Singh will not be arrested till July 2 by which time he can file an appeal in the superior court. Tota Singh is the second minister in the newly formed Akali Government...
07:21 PM, May 05, 2012
Chandigarh: Shiromani Akali Dal leader and former Punjab minister Bibi Jagir Kaur's application for a TV in her jail cell has been turned down by Punjab Director General of Police (Prisons) Shashi Kant. Kant had ordered an inquiry on Wednesday into reports of VIP treatment being provided to Jagir Kaur. He deputed an IG rank officer to conduct the probe. The officer is likely to visit the jail premises on...
11:50 AM, Apr 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Director General (Prisons) Punjab, Shashi Kant, on Friday said that he would take strict action against all those police personnel who "stooped" to the level of touching the feet of Bibi Jagir Kaur, the former Punjab Cabinet Minister who on Friday, was charged with the murder of her daughter and sentenced to five years of rigorous imprisonment in Patiala jail. In an interview with Network 18 Editor-in-Chief...
10:01 PM, Apr 03, 2012
Chandigarh: Punjab police is at the centre of a controversy for giving VIP treatment to convicted minister Bibi Jagir Kaur. Some of the uniformed policemen even bowed down to touch the feet of the convicted minister. The VIP treatment, however, did not end there. The former SGPC chief, who was last week convicted of the forced abortion of her daughter Harpreet, was ferried to the Kapurthala jail in an air-conditioned...
09:29 PM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: Two days after police officials were caught touching convicted minister Bibi Jagir Kaur in jail, Punjab Jail Minister SS Phillaur denied any such treatment being meted out to Kaur. "I haven't seen the video of policemen touching Jagir Kaur's feet. How can I comment on it," said Phillaur. Uniformed officers were seen bowing down to touch Kaur's feet and transporting her in an air-conditioned car to Kapurthala Jail...
11:59 AM, Apr 03, 2012
Amritsar: Radical Sikh outfit Dal Khalsa on Sunday took a dig at Punjab government for allegedly extending VVIP treatment to former minister Jagir Kaur, who is in jail for conspiring in forcible abortion and abduction in the killing of her daughter 12 years ago. "Punjab government is violating constitution by extending VVIP treatment to Bibi Jagir Kaur lodged in Kapurthala jail, party's secretary for human rights Pritpal Singh said. Blaming...
04:12 AM, Apr 02, 2012
Chandigarh: Hardly a few hours after her conviction and arrest on Friday evening, former Punjab cabinet minister Jagir Kaur continued to wield political influence even as a prisoner of law. Video footage emerging from Patiala and Kapurthala jails clearly shows that Jagir Kaur, who was convicted of criminal conspiracy and other charges in the mysterious death of her 19-year-old daughter, Harpreet Kaur, in April 2000 and sent to jail, was...
08:31 PM, Mar 31, 2012
Jalandhar: Bibi Jagir Kaur, a prominent Akali leader and a minister in the Punjab government, will now spend five years in jail. The former chief of the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabhandhak Committee has been sentenced for the forced abortion of her daughter Harpreet. But it could have been worse. Kaur was accused of murdering her daughter over her marriage with a person from a lower caste. The Patiala CBI court has...
11:46 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Chandigarh: The special CBI court in Patiala acquitted Punjab cabinet minister and former Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) president Bibi Jagir Kaur in her daughter Harpreet Kaur's murder case on Friday but found her guilty of forcing her daughter to undergo abortion. The court sentenced Kaur to five years rigorous imprisonment and also fined Rs 5,000. She has also been found guilty of abducting her daughter Harpreet, who had died...
04:06 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: The special CBI court in Patiala is expected to pronounce the much-awaited verdict in the Harpreet Kaur murder case on Friday, in which Punjab cabinet minister and former SGPC president Bibi Jagir Kaur is the prime accused. If the court convicts Jagir Kaur, the Opposition will seek her removal and try to corner the Akali-BJP government. The case, which dates back to 2000, has seen several witnesses turning...
06:16 AM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: Punjab Police on Sunday registered a case against Shiromani Akali Dal candidate Bibi Jagir Kaur and 4 aides for allegedly distributing liquor to voters to influence them. They acted on a tip-off from Congress candidate Sukhpal Singh Khera and seized a vehicle laden with 183 cases of liquor in Kapurthala on Friday. This was the third haul in 10 days. Jagir Kaur, who used to be the chief...
08:34 AM, Jan 15, 2012
Chandigarh: Punjab Lokpal on Monday ordered an inquiry into complaint on 'illegal occupation' of prime government land in Kapurthala district by former SGPC chief Jagir Kaur at the alleged behest of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. Lokpal Justice (Retd) DS Dhaliwal directed that an inquiry officer of the rank of IG should submit a report within a month's time, officials said. Complainant George Shubh, of Kapurthala district, had recently filed...
07:48 PM, Aug 29, 2011
