Beant Singh assassination: Chandigarh court awards life-term to Bheora
Chandigarh:A special court in Chandigarh on Tuesday awarded life term to Paramjit Singh Bheora, convicted in the assasination of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh. The court of Additional District and Sessions judge Ravi Kumar Sondhi
had on Monday held Bheora guilty of criminal conspiracy and involvement in the
assassination of the former Chief Minister. Beant Singh. was assassinated by a
car bomb on August 31, 1995 in Chandigarh that killed eleven other people, including
three members of Singh's security staff. Following the assassination, the name
of Bheora alias Pammi had surfaced for the first time on September 13, 1995. He
was caught, among seven militants, in August 1997 from Jammu . Separatist group
Babbar Khalsa had then claimed responsibility for the assassination, but security
authorities were reported to be doubtful of the truth of that claim.
