Chandigarh: A court here today held Jagtar Singh Tara guilty in a case pertaining to
the assassination of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh.
The
court of additional district and session judge J S Sidhu will pronounce
the quantum of sentence tomorrow, Tara's counsel Simranjit Singh said.
Tara (43) had earlier confessed to his involvement in the assassination of Beant Singh in 1995.
Simranjit
Singh said Tara had admitted to his involvement in the assassination of
former chief minister in a confession letter which he had submitted to
the court in January this year.
On August 31, 1995, then chief
minister Beant Singh was killed in an explosion outside the Civil
Secretariat in Chandigarh. Punjab police employee Dilawar Singh had
acted as a human bomb in the incident.
PTI
