SGPC seeks meeting with Rajoana in jail
AMRITSAR, Oct. 4 -- 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.
The SGPC request comes 10 days after the Supreme Court, during a hearing, had observed that the Centre alone was responsible for the delay in taking a decision on the mercy petition of Rajoana, a Babbar Khalsa sympathiser on death row for the 1995 assassination of former Punjab CM Beant Singh.
According to SGPC, a delegation led by gurdwara body president Harjinder Singh Dhami is slated to meet Rajoana at Patiala Jail.
In a statement issued by the SGPC office, secretary Partap Singh said that, as per the directions of SGPC president, a formal letter has been sent to the ADGP (Jails) seeking time to meet Rajoana at the earliest.
"Rajoana has been imprisoned for nearly three decades, and Sikh institutions have continuously been making efforts for the commutation of his death sentence. The delegation that will meet Rajoana will include executive committee member Surjit Singh Garhi, member Gurcharan Singh Grewal, and advocate Bhagwant Singh Sialka," the SGPC statement said....
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