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    Balwant Singh Rajoana News

    Rajoana clemency plea: SAD (Punar-Surjit) accuses Centre of insensitivity towards Sikhs

    Rajoana also called for an honourable resolution of pending demands concerning the Sikh community. (HT)
    Cities
    Published 13 days ago

    Balwant Rajoana row adds fresh strain to possible BJP-SAD alliance revival in Punjab

    The issue of Rajoana’s death sentence has again brought into focus differences between the two parties over matters with significant political and religious resonance in Punjab. (HT File)
    Cities
    Updated 14 days ago

    ‘Not conducive’: Centre opposes Balwant Rajoana’s death commutation plea in Supreme Court

    A special court sentenced Balwant Singh Rajoana to death in July 2007, a decision upheld by the Punjab and Haryana high court in 2010. (HT FILE PHOTO)
    India News
    Updated 16 days ago

    Punjab: Giani Gargaj, Dhami meet Rajoana in Patiala jail; seek early decision on mercy plea

    Rajoana, who was sentenced to death for his role in the 1995 assassination of then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, has spent more than 31 years in prison, including nearly two decades on death row. (HT File)
    Cities
    Published 23 days ago

    Rajoana writes to PM, seeks urgent decision on mercy plea

    In his letter, Rajoana, who is lodged in Patiala Central Jail, said he had spent 31 years in prison, including the last 20 years facing the prospect of execution while waiting for a final decision on his case.
    Cities
    Published 35 days ago

    Beant Singh assassination: SC asks Centre to file affidavit on Rajoana's plea

    Beant Singh assassination: SC asks Centre to file affidavit on Rajoana's plea
    India News
    Published 184 days ago

    SGPC asks Akal Takht to take call on withdrawal of Rajoana’s mercy plea

    SGPC chief Harjinder Singh Dhami
    Cities
    Published 185 days ago

    Beant Singh assassination: SC to hear Balwant Rajoana’s plea on March 18

    Balwant Singh Rajoana has been incarcerated for more than 29 years, of which he has been on death row for over 15 years. (File photo)
    Cities
    Published 247 days ago

    Rajoana urges Akal Takht to take up mercy petition with Centre on priority

    Death-row convict Balwant Singh Rajoana heading to the Government Dental College, Patiala on Friday. (HT Photo)
    Cities
    Published 363 days ago

    SGPC seeks time to meet Rajoana in Patiala jail

    Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) secretary has written to the additional director general of police (jails) seeking an appointment to meet death-row convict Balwant Singh Rajoana. (HT File)
    Cities
    Published 384 days ago

    SC raps Centre over delay in deciding Rajoana mercy plea

    SC raps Centre over delay in deciding Rajoana mercy plea
    India News
    Published 393 days ago

    CM assassination: Why Rajoana not hanged till now, SC asks after Centre says serious offence

    CM assassination: Why Rajoana not hanged till now, SC asks after Centre says serious offence
    India News
    Published 394 days ago

    Jathedar meets Rajoana, calls for unity ahead of Op Bluestar aniv

    Akal Takht acting jathedar Giani Kuldeep Singh Gargaj met Sikh prisoner Balwant Singh Rajoana in the Patiala central jail.
    Cities
    Published 506 days ago

    After Rajoana’s objection, SGPC puts decision on Manmohan’s portrait on hold

    The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee on Friday put its decision to install a portrait of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the Central Sikh Museum in the Golden Temple complex on hold. (HT file photo)
    Cities
    Published 518 days ago

    Rajoana’s mercy petition will not be withdrawn: SGPC

    Rajoana had earlier demanded that the SGPC withdraw its petition concerning him. (HT File)
    Cities
    Published 523 days ago

    Will seek community’s consensus on withdrawing Rajoana’s mercy plea: SGPC

    Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Harjinder Singh Dhami during a meeting in Amritsar on Monday. (HT Photo)
    Cities
    Published 535 days ago

    SGPC delegation meets Rajoana, slams Centre for delay in mercy plea decision

    Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) chief Harjinder Singh Dhami, comes out of the Patiala Central Jail after meeting with convict Balwant Singh Rajoana on Friday. (ANI)
    Cities
    Published 538 days ago

    Direct Centre to decide on Rajoana’s mercy plea, SGPC urges top court

    Balwant Singh Rajoana
    Cities
    Published 554 days ago

    Centre’s no to PM-Takht panel meet regarding Sikh prisoners ‘unfortunate’, says Dhami

    Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Harjinder Singh Dhami
    Cities
    Published 575 days ago

    SC grants Centre till Mar 18 to decide on Rajoana’s mercy plea

    Rajoana has been in prison for 29 years, of which 15 years have been spent on death row following his conviction in 2007. (HT PHOTO)
    India News
    Updated 640 days ago

    SC grants Centre four weeks to decide on Rajoana mercy plea

    The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Union government four weeks to decide on the long-pending mercy plea of Balwant Singh Rajoana, a convict in the 1995 assassination of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, even as the Centre flagged the “sensitivity” of the issue and said the situation was not conducive to resolving the matter at present. (Getty Images/iStockphoto/ Representational image)
    Cities
    Updated 696 days ago

    SC grants Centre four weeks to decide on Balwant Singh Rajoana’s mercy petition

    Balwant Singh Rajoana, the key accused in former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh’s murder case. (HT File Photo)
    India News
    Published 697 days ago

    Death row convict Rajoana calls for Sikh unity to fight ‘conspiracy’

    Balwant Singh Rajoana (centre), a death row convict in the Beant Singh assassination case, attending the prayer meet of his brother, Kulwant Singh, at a gurdwara in Ludhiana on Wednesday. The high court granted him a three-hour parole to attend the ceremony. (HT Photo)
    Cities
    Published 702 days ago

    HC allows Rajoana to attend brother’s bhog ceremony

    HC allows Rajoana to attend brother’s bhog ceremony
    Cities
    Updated 702 days ago

    SC defers signing Rajoana mercy plea order

    Balwant Singh Rajoana (HT PHOTO)
    India News
    Updated 703 days ago

    Beant case: SC puts on hold its order to President’s secy on Rajoana plea

    Balwant Singh Rajoana is convicted in the 1995 assassination case of then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh. A special court sentenced Rajoana to death in July 2007. (HT file photo)
    Cities
    Published 704 days ago

    SC urges President to decide Balwant Rajoana’s mercy plea in two weeks

    Rajoana was scheduled for execution on March 31, 2012, but the sentence was stayed following a mercy plea filed by SGPC. (HT file photo)
    India News
    Published 704 days ago

    SAD slams AAP for ‘creating hurdles in the way’ of Rajoana’s parole

    Asking chief minister Bhagwant Mann not to befool Punjabis, Majithia said “the chief minister should immediately issue directions for a clear cut no objection for the release of Rajoana and present the same in the Supreme Court.” (HT File)
    Cities
    Updated 704 days ago

    SC declines to consider immediate release for Balwant Rajoana

    A special court in July 2007 awarded the death sentence to Rajoana. (HT file photo)
    India News
    Published 718 days ago

    Beant Singh assassination: SC to hear Rajoana’s plea for commutation of death sentence on Nov 4

    In his plea, Rajoana has sought directions to the Centre and the Punjab government to commute his death sentence “due to inordinate delay” in its execution and in deciding the “mercy petition filed on his behalf”. (HT File)
    Cities
    Updated 719 days ago
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