CHANDIGARH, Sept 2: Jagtar Singh Tara, an accused in the Beant Singh assassination case today admitted his involvement in the killing of the former Punjab chief minister in 1995. He is the second accused to do so. Another, Balwant Singh, had made a similar statement before the court on December 25 last year.Silence descended on the makeshift courtroom at the high security Model Jail in Burail village near here, when the 30-year-old taxi driver announced: ``I was with Bhai Dilawar Singh (the human bomb) at the time of the assassination. If you consider killing Beant Singh a crime, then I am proud of committing it and I am willing to face the consequences.''A slight movement of the fingers was the only indication of his nervousness as Tara, in a light grey T-shirt, blue trousers and a saffron turban stood before Chandigarh district and sessions judge B S Bedi while the judge scanned his two-page hand-written note in the Gurmukhi script. ``My case should be decided as soon as possible and the otherinnocent youth arrested by the CBI should be freed,'' the note said.Before being escorted back to the mesh-iron cell within the courtroom, he raised pro-Khalistan slogans, renting the air with cries of ``Khalistan zindabad, Bhai Dilawar Singh zindabad, Babbar Khalsa zindabad, Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale zindabad!''Beant Singh was killed in a blast outside the Civil Secretariat here on August 31, 1995. While Dilawar Singh, believed to be the human bomb, was killed in the explosion, nine others accused of a conspiracy to kill the former chief minister are facing trial. According to the prosecution, Tara had ferried Dilawar Singh to the site of the blast in a car purchased by him and Jagtar Singh Hawara from one S K Dutta of Delhi. The conspiracy was unearthed after the car was found parked outside the Secretariat soon after the blast.In his confessional statement, Tara also stated that he and Dilawar Singh had taken ``the decision to assassinate Beant Singh after a great deal of thought''. He hadcommitted no crime by killing Beant Singh ``for his anti-Sikh activities, Tara maintained, alleging that ``thousands of innocent youth were killed and women raped at the then chief minister's behest''.His action was a ``performance of his religious duty'', Tara wrote, adding he had participated in the crime to ``protect the dignity and honour of Sikhism''.``I have no regrets about Beant Singh's death but I am sorry for the deaths of all the innocent people killed in the blast,'' he said.The case comes up for further hearing on Thursday.