JaGtar siNGH tara Gets liFe imprisoNmeNt

CHANDIGARH: A local court on Saturday sentenced to life imprisonment till death, Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terrorist Jagtar Singh Tara, who was held guilty a day earlier for involvement in the assassination of then Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh in 1995. Beant Singh and 17 others were killed when “human bomb” Dilawar Singh blew himself up at the Punjab secretariat complex here on 31 August 1995. A special court was held in the high security Burail Jail to pronounce the sentence. Three BKI terrorists, including Tara, had escaped by digging a tunnel in the high-security Burail jail here in 2004.