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
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
Chandigarh: A day-long bandh called by radical Sikh outfits to protest the proposed execution of Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted in the Beant Singh killing case, disrupted normal life in parts of Punjab on Tuesday. A report from Patiala said the call for bandh evoked a total response in the city where Rajoana is lodged in the local Central Jail awaiting his execution on March 31 as per the orders of...
10:43 AM, Mar 28, 2012
Chandigarh: The Akali Dal-backed Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee has decided to file a clemency plea before the President for Beant Singh's co-assassin Balwant Singh Rajoana. Rajoana is on death row for assassinating then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh in 1995. The decision was taken at the SGPC meeting on Sunday and welcomed by Beant's family. While the campaign seeking support for clemency to Rajoana gained more support, the Patiala Central...
10:13 AM, Mar 26, 2012
Chandigarh: Punjab's ruling Shiromani Akali Dal on Sunday asked the state government and the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) to take all possible legal and other steps to secure clemency for Balwant Singh Rajoana, a Babbar Khalsa International terrorist, facing death sentence for former chief minister Beant Singh's assassination. At an emergency meeting here of the party's core committee, chaired by party president and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal,...
10:13 PM, Mar 25, 2012
Chandigarh: Constituencies from where women candidates staked their political fortunes witnessed high polling in the January 30 Punjab assembly election. A total of 93 women out of 1078 contestants entered the race for the state assembly this time. A turnout of 87.21 per cent was recorded in Malerkotla constituency where wives of two top cops, one retired and another serving crossed swords. The ruling Shiromani Akali Dal had fielded first-timer...
06:31 PM, Feb 01, 2012
Amritsar: Radical Sikh organisations on Wednesday condemned the order of Punjab and Haryana High Court, which allowed 'sehajdharis (non-baptised Sikhs) to cast votes in SGPC polls. "The High Court decision has plunged the Sikh community into fresh crises...Sehajdharis are non-Sikhs, describing them as part of Sikhism is untrue," Dal Khalsa spokesperson Kanwar Pal Singh said. He said due to some political reasons, Sehajdharis were given voting rights in 1959 though...
02:19 AM, Dec 22, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear death row convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar's plea to convert his sentence into a life term. The Khalistani militant who had been sentenced to death for triggering the 1993 Delhi car bomb attack that killed 12 people, had filed a mercy petition before the President in January. President Pratibha Patil had rejected the mercy petition in May 2011. Bhullar's counsel had...
08:46 AM, Nov 09, 2011
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
New Delhi: Politics continue over Khalistani terrorist Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar's mercy issue. The Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) has decided to approach the United Nations Human Rights Commission asking it to intervene for saving Bhullar, whose mercy plea was rejected by President Pratibha Patil last week. The SGPC will also file a separate mercy petition to the President. The committee will also bear all expenses incurred by Bhullar's family...
04:39 PM, May 31, 2011
Chandigarh: All India Anti-Terrorist Front Chairman MS Bitta on Monday said political parties were indulging in votebank politics over rejection of mercy plea of death row convict and Khalistan militant Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar even as SGPC decided to file a review petition against capital punishment for Bhullar. "It is unfortunate that parties are indulging in votebank politics over such a sensitive issue. It is time that people of this...
06:41 PM, May 30, 2011
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