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The Supreme Court connected Tuesday (January 13, 2026) deferred by 2 weeks proceeding connected Beant Singh execution convict Jagtar Singh Hawara’s plea seeking his transportation from Delhi’s Tihar jailhouse to immoderate situation successful Punjab.
The Babbar Khalsa violent is serving beingness word successful the lawsuit related to the sidesplitting of erstwhile Punjab Chief Minister successful 1995.
A Bench comprising Justices M.M. Sundresh and N. Kotiswar Singh adjourned the substance arsenic Solicitor General Tushar Mehta was not available.
On September 27 past year, the Supreme Court issued notices to the Centre, Chandigarh medication and the Delhi and Punjab Governments connected Hawara’s plea.
Hawara is serving imprisonment for the remainder of his beingness successful the lawsuit related to the blast astatine the entranceway of the civilian secretariat astatine Chandigarh connected August 31, 1995 successful which Beant Singh and 16 much radical were killed.
The plea filed successful the Supreme Court said Hawara’s behaviour successful situation has been without blemish but for an alleged jailhouse interruption connected January 22, 2004 erstwhile helium had escaped and was aboriginal arrested. It said helium should beryllium transferred from Tihar Jail successful Delhi to immoderate different situation successful Punjab arsenic determination is nary lawsuit pending against him successful the nationalist capital.
“Petitioner [Hawara] is presently serving his beingness imprisonment till the remainder of his beingness successful a lawsuit registered successful the State of Punjab... He is simply a autochthonal of State of Punjab, Fatehgarh Sahib district, and ought to beryllium confined successful a situation successful Punjab,” it said.
According to the plea, the petitioner had 36 mendacious cases foisted connected him aft the execution of Beant Singh and helium has been acquitted successful each but one. One idiosyncratic convicted successful the aforesaid lawsuit and besides portion of the jailhouse interruption has been shifted from Tihar to a jailhouse successful Chandigarh, it said.
“The specified information that the petitioner was considered a high-risk captive years agone is not a bully capable crushed contiguous to support the captive successful Delhi and not displacement him to Punjab,” it said, adding that his girl is successful Punjab. Hawara’s woman has died and his parent is successful a coma successful the U.S.
“The question that arises successful this lawsuit is whether a idiosyncratic who has been accused of committing a execution successful the discourse of superior societal upheaval wherever tens of thousands of young Sikhs were extra-judicially executed by the State constabulary connected the instructions of the deceased Chief Minister Beant Singh, which offence has been characterised arsenic exacerbated by his unsuccessful jailhouse interruption attempt, but who has for the past 19 years led a beingness successful situation which is without blemish tin question an bid from this tribunal for transportation to a jailhouse successful Punjab,” the plea said.
In March 2007, Hawara was sentenced to decease by a proceedings tribunal successful the case.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court successful October 2010 commuted his condemnation to beingness imprisonment with a absorption that helium shall not beryllium released from jailhouse for the remainder of his life.
Hawara’s petition said the appeals filed by him arsenic good arsenic by the prosecution against the High Court verdict are pending successful the Supreme Court.
