Jagtar Singh Hawara moves court to start trial in 16-yr-old case

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 16

Serving life term at Tihar jail in Delhi for the assassination of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh, Jagtar Singh Hawara filed a plea before a local court today for starting trial in a case registered against him in 2005.

The application has been filed through advocates AS Chahal and Dilser S Jandiala.

The counsels said an FIR was registered by the Chandigarh Police in July 2005 against four people, including Hawara at the Sector 17 police station. They said while three accused were acquitted by the court of Additional Session Judge, Chandigarh, vide judgment dated May 27, 2010, but Hawara’s case was pending since then.

The counsels argued that Hawara was also an accused in the case, but his trial did not take place on account of order of the Chandigarh Administration passed under Section 267, CrPC. Counsels said now the police had informed that the case in which order was passed had been decided.

With the reply of the police Hawara’s trial should be started in the case without further delay, counsels added. They requested the court that warrants may be sent to the superintendent, Tihar Jail, Delhi, for production of the accused in the case before the court. The court has issued notices to parties concerned for February 23, 2022.