JALANDHAR: Kamaldeep Kaur, sister of Beant Singh assassin Balwant Singh Rajoana, whose hanging has been stayed by the Union home ministry, has demanded that his trial in a 17-year-old case regarding recovery of explosives be completed early, as police were causing inordinate delay in the case by not producing Rajoana in the court.
Hearing of the case in a court of Patiala was scheduled on Tuesday. However, police did not produce him in the court of additional sessions judge, Patiala, on Tuesday for security reasons. Kamaldeep Kaur, in a written statement, said that it was the fourth time after March 31 (when Rajoana was scheduled to be hanged) that Rajoana was not being produced in the case. Police have claimed that it he is a dreaded terrorist and there could not be enough security arrangements to produce him, she said.
She said that police had been producing Rajoana in the same court, but now police were avoiding producing him in the court. “Authorities are doing it deliberately on the pretext of security as actually they are afraid of Rajoana’s popularity. Authorities think that Rajoana’s popularity would wane away by keeping him away from public eye as his production in the court would draw public attention,” Kamaldeep argued.
Hearing in the 17-year-old case should be expedited so that it could reach its logical conclusion, she said.
Notably, lakhs of Sikhs had come out on streets in Punjab in the last week of March to protest the scheduled hanging of Rajoana.
News source: Times of India
