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Balwant Singh Rajoana News

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

Published 82 days ago

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

SGPC chief Harjinder Singh Dhami

Published 84 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)

Published 145 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)

Published 262 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)

Published 283 days ago

SC raps Centre over delay in deciding Rajoana mercy plea

SC raps Centre over delay in deciding Rajoana mercy plea

Published 292 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

Published 292 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.

Published 405 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)

Published 416 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Rajoana’s mercy petition will not be withdrawn: SGPC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)

Published 422 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)

Published 434 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)

Published 436 days ago

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

Balwant Singh Rajoana

Published 452 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

Published 474 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)

Updated 539 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)

Updated 595 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)

Published 595 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)

Published 600 days ago

HC allows Rajoana to attend brother’s bhog ceremony

HC allows Rajoana to attend brother’s bhog ceremony

Updated 601 days ago

SC defers signing Rajoana mercy plea order

Balwant Singh Rajoana (HT PHOTO)

Updated 602 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)

Published 602 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)

Published 602 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)

Updated 603 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)

Published 616 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)

Updated 618 days ago

SC to reassess Rajoana plea forcommutation of death penalty

Rajoana, a former Punjab Police constable, was convicted for his involvement in an explosion outside the Punjab civil secretariat that killed Beant Singh and 16 others in 1995 (HT Photo)

Updated 656 days ago

Rajoana case: SGPC to write to Prez in last-ditch effort

The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on Friday resolved to make a last-ditch attempt by writing to the President to decide on its petition pertaining to the case of Balwant Singh Rajoana, the death row convict in CM Beant Singh assassination case. (HT File)

Updated 696 days ago

Law should be equal for all: SGPC chief on furlough to Ram Rahim

After meeting Sikh prisoner Balwant Singh Rajoana, death row convict in chief minister Beant Singh assassination case, in Patiala jail along with Akal Takht jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Harjinder Singh Dhami on Tuesday raised questions over the 21-day furlough granted to Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim who walked out of the Rohtak’s Sunaria jail this morning. (HT File)

Updated 699 days ago

Balwant Singh Rajoana shoots off letter to home minister Amit Shah

Balwant Singh Rajoana

Updated 923 days ago

Rajoana petition: Talks with Centre on, give more time, SGPC writes to Akal Takht

Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee president Harjinder Singh Dhami (C). (File)

Updated 924 days ago

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