Mohali police fail to submit status report in 23-year-old sedition case against Hawara
The police sought more time for filing the report after consulting with ‘senior officers.’ The court has fixed September 21 as the next date of hearing.
Jagtar Singh Hawara and Paramjit Singh Bheora. (Express Archive) The district police failed to submit the status report in a 23-year-old sedition case against Jagtar Singh Hawara who is convicted in former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh’s assassination case and is currently lodged in Tihar jail.
The police sought more time for filing the report after consulting with ‘senior officers.’ The court has fixed September 21 as the next date of hearing.
Hawara, along with six other persons were booked under sections 124-A (sedition), 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion), 225 (Resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension of another person) and 511(Punishment for attempting to commit offenses punishable with imprisonment for life or other imprisonments) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in FIR number 31, registered on June 13, 1998 at Sohana police station.
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