‘Hawara a threat to security’

Citing Hawara’s deep and pervasive terrorist association and connections both on the national and international plane and his position and ‘standing’ in the world of terrorism,the Administration has submitted that any dilution of the existing security regime evolved for Hawara would entail the potential of undermining and subverting the security and safety of the region and the nation.

Denying that Hawara is being kept in solitary confinement,the Administration has submitted that he has been lodged in 20-cells ward which is a high security ward in compliance with the Burail Jail Break Enquiry Committee Report. 

“It is wrong that Hawara has been kept in solitary confinement. If visitors other than the blood relations are allowed to meet him,it will be a threat to the security of the jail as there is every apprehension that he can misuse the privilege as he has done before the jail break of 2004,” submitted Navjot Pal Singh Randhawa, Additional Inspector General of Prisons-cum-Superintendent Model Jail in his reply.. 

The reply reads: “Hawara has been kept in the high-ecurity ward along with two more prisoners (who have also been awarded death sentence by the trial court). He regularly converses with the other two prisoners lodged in the ward”. The reply also mentions the infamous Burail jail-break case as another reason to justify threat to security by Hawara.

Hawara,who had been awarded death penalty for the assassination of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh,had submitted that he should not be kept in solitary confinement but in a cell visible to other prisoners. He had further demanded that he should be allowed to meet his close relatives and that a religious guru should be allowed to meet him inside the jail,who can read out scriptures and gurbani to him.