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Beant Singh murder case accused escape from jail

Chandigarh, January 22
Four undertrials, including three accused in the Beant Singh assassination case, escaped from the high security Burail jail in Chandigarh on Thursday, jail sources said.

Those escaped included Jagtar Singh Hawara, Jagtar Singh Tara and Paramjit Singh, the three main accused in the assassination of Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh in 1995, sources said.

The fourth was an undertrial attached as a helper to the accused.

The four escaped by digging about a 100-foot-long tunnel from their barrack inside the prison to a point outside the jail boundary, sources added.

Senior civil and police officials, including Chandigarh Deputy Commissioner and District Magistrate Arun Kumar, who is also Inspector General of prison, have reached the Burail jail.

The proceedings of the Beant Singh assassination case were being conducted within the high security prison.

Senior Superintendent of police Gaurav Yadav while talking to PTI confirmed the escape of the four prisoners and added at the moment no further details could be given.

Beant Singh was assassinated in a human bomb blast out side the Punjab and Haryana Civil Secretariat in Chandigarh on August 31, 1995. — PTI