Chandigarh: A Chandigarh trial court held Jagtar Singh Tara guilty for the assassination of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh. The court of additional district and sessions judge JS Sidhu will pronounce the quantum of sentence on Saturday. The trial was going on inside the Burail Jail in Chandigarh.
Tara had confessed to his crime thrice already before the court.
The trial concluded on Friday after he said he had no regrets about what had happened.
he then chief minister of Punjab Beant Singh was killed in an explosion outside the Civil Secretariat in Chandigarh on August 31, 1995. Punjab police employee Dilawar Singh had acted as a human bomb in the incident. The police had taken nine accused in custody, out of whom the fate of eight has been already decided.
