Chandigarh: ThePunjab and Haryana high courton Monday dismissed Beant Singh assassination convict Paramjit Singh Bheora’s petition for parole to attend the wedding of his niece in Delhi.Bheora is in the Burail jail of Chandigarh, while this wedding in his family is on October 29. He had requested to be released from 6am to 2pm on that day to be able to attend the function, but the division bench of justice Vinod S Bhardwaj and justice Harsh Bunger dismissed his prayer. He had moved the high court after finding no luck with the state authorities. The orders to dismiss his plea were announced in an open court, but the detailed copy was unavailable till the filing of this report.The convict had received life imprisonment from a special CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) court in Chandigarh for the offence reported at the city’s Sector-3 police station on August 31, 1995, under the Indian Penal Code and the Explosive Substances Act . His appeal against conviction is pending before the high court. Balwant Singh Rajoana and Jagtar Singh Hawara were his co-accused, and their conviction has attained finality.We also published the following articles recently
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