Browsing Tag: Hanging

Upon hearing of the verdict by the Supreme Court on Friday Sikhs have been holding a constant vigil from midday outside 10 Downing Street. This has been an around the clock vigil where numbers at times have swelled to over a thousand.

The Centre has stayed the hanging. Now it must commute the sentence.

The Punjab Jails Department has refused to execute the order of a Chandigarh court asking the Patiala Central Jail authorities to hang Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana. On Monday, the Central Jail, Patiala authorities also returned the “black or death warrant” of the Chandigarh Court

As per media reports “Black Warrants” for the execution of Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana, who has been sentenced death penalty in former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh’s assassination case, reached Patiala Central Jail authorities on February 13, 2012 and he will be hanged in Patiala central jail at 9 am on March 31.