Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his son Sukhbir Singh Badal, who is his deputy, will meet the Prime Minister today to discuss the fallout of the Supreme Court judgment rejecting militant Devender Pal Singh Bhullar’s petition that his death sentence be commuted to life. The Shiromani Akali Dal-led government in Punjab has said that it fears a law and order situation in the state... 

AMRITSAR: Damdami Taksal, a prominent sikh seminary once headed by Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale who was killed in Operation Bluestar to flush out terrorists from Golden Temple in 1984, has warned of “disastrous consequences” if Devenderpal Singh Bhullar is hanged after Supreme Court on Friday rejected his plea for commutation of the sentence to life imprisonment. Talking to TOI on Saturday,... 

After seeking clemency for Balwant Singh Rajoana, who is on death row in the Beant Singh assassination case, chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal have demanded that death sentence awarded to Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar in the 1993 Delhi bomb blast case be commuted to life term. The chief minister said on Sunday that he would meet president Pranab Mukherjee and prime... 

FATEHGARH SAHIB: Former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh’s assassin Balwant Singh Rajoana, facing death row, has said that he did not want anyone to defend him. His statement comes in the wake of a petition filed by Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) president Simranjit Singh Mann in Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking stay on Rajoana’s hanging. A letter purportedly written by him and released... 

The distance between Balwant Singh Rajoana and the gallows was reduced by a decision in another case on Wednesday with the Patiala court awarding him ten-year rigorous imprisonment (RI) under an Explosives Act. Rajoana is already on the death row in the assassination case of Punjab’s former Chief Minister Beant Singh. Sentencing him to ten-year RI and a fine of `10,000 in a 1995 case pertaining... 

Amid heavy security, Balwant Singh Rajoana, who is facing death sentence in former CM Beant Singh’s assassination case, was on Monday produced in a court here in connection with an Explosive Act case pending against him. The case was registered in 1995 by the Rajpura police allegedly after seizure of explosives from Rajoana. After his death sentence was suspended temporarily, it was for first... 

JALANDHAR: Balwant Singh Rajoana, who is in death row in Chief Minister Beant Singh assassination case, has said that Congress and BJP in place of opposing the Blue Star memorial, as it would not be a threat to national integration, they should work to bring the culprits of anti Sikh riots of Delhi in November ’84. He has also demanded that reality behind the attack on Gen K S Brar should come... 

Leader of opposition in the Punjab assembly Sunil Jakhar has asked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to clarify its stand on “martyr” status for Balwant Singh Rajoana, who is on death row for the assassination of former chief minister Beant Singh. “Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has changed the definition of martyr by declaring Rajoana as one, but conspicuously BJP, which claims to be a... 

Karnal, September 12 Additional district and sessions judge of Karnal Ravi Sondhi today convicted Baksheesh Singh, main accused in the blast on the convoy of Dera Sacha Sauda chief on February 2 , 2008, and two other accused Swaran Singh and Mahinder Singh and sentenced them to 10 years’ imprisonment. The court also convicted four other accused and sentenced them to seven years’ imprisonment and... 

Other than the “outstanding” annual confidential reports (ACRs) of Sumedh Singh Saini, it was the “emerging volatile” situation in Punjab — owing to orders being issued to execute the death warrant against Beant Singh’s assassin Balwant Singh Rajoana in March — which compelled the state government to immediately appoint Saini as the DGP. So much so that the government showed scant faith...