The Supreme Court will hear Balwant Singh Rajoana’s plea seeking commutation of his death sentence due to over a decade-long delay in deciding his mercy petition. Rajoana, convicted in the 1995 assassination of former Punjab CM Beant Singh, has spent more than 15 years on death row.
Today, on 13th January,The Supreme Court deferred for two weeks the hearing on Jagtar Singh Hawara’s plea seeking transfer from Tihar Jail in Delhi to any prison in Punjab. Hawara, a Babbar Khalsa member, is serving imprisonment for the assassination.
