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The Supreme Court has deferred the hearing of a plea by Jagtar Singh Hawara, convicted in the 1995 assassination of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh, seeking transfer from Delhi's Tihar Jail to a prison in Punjab. The decision was made after the Intelligence Bureau (IB) warned that Hawara's transfer could have serious implications for the state's upcoming assembly elections. The bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and P.B. Varale took note of the IB's confidential report, which described Hawara as a high-risk prisoner and expressed apprehensions that his transfer could affect law and order and the political atmosphere ahead of the elections. Hawara, who is serving a life sentence for his role in the assassination, will remain in Tihar Jail for the time being. The court will now hear the plea in February 2027.
Hawara, a member of the banned militant organisation Babbar Khalsa International, was convicted for his role in the August 31, 1995, suicide bombing outside the Punjab Civil Secretariat in Chandigarh. The explosion killed Beant Singh and 16 others.
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