{"id":244,"date":"2004-02-14T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-14T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/02\/14\/lawyers-fear-illegal-execution-of-ja"},"modified":"2004-02-14T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-14T16:49:00","slug":"lawyers-fear-illegal-execution-of-jailbreak-escapees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/02\/14\/lawyers-fear-illegal-execution-of-jailbreak-escapees\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers Fear Illegal Execution of Jailbreak Escapees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a127'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The defense counsel for the escapees, accused of roles in the assassination of former Chief Minister Beant Singh, have <A href=\"http:\/\/cities.expressindia.com\/fullstory.php?newsid=76033\">filed an application in court<\/A> [scroll to bottom of link]<\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> stating that Jagtar Singh Hawara and Jagtar Tara have been eliminated by the police:<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>The defence counsel for the accused moved another application in favour of Jagtar Singh Hawara and Jagtar Tara saying the two had been eliminated as part of a conspiracy on part of the UT administration and police and sought a stay on the PO proceedings to be initiated against them. The judge has reserved his orders on this plea as well on the plea for allowing the media to attend the proceedings till February 19.<\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The father of the third accused, Paramjit Singh Bheora, has already <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/02\/10#a118\">filed an application<\/A> with similar allegations.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/newsItems\/departments\/Punjab\">Punjab section<\/A><\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> of the blog has several posts relating to human rights concerns raised by the alleged escape of the accused and treatment of related detainees.<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The defense counsel for the escapees, accused of roles in the assassination of former Chief Minister Beant Singh, have filed an application in court [scroll to bottom of link] stating that Jagtar Singh Hawara and Jagtar Tara have been eliminated by the police: The defence counsel for the accused moved another application in favour of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1471],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punjab"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}