NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday I freed Bal sentenced to death for plotting the assassination of prime minister Indira Gandhi, but confirmed the extreme penalty on Satwant Singht and K Singh. Three judges said the government had not proved police ins Singh bad Bee to kill Gandhi on October 31,1984, and o freed. But they said Satwant Singh, 24, a policeman who emptied his gun into Gandhi’s body, and former civil servant Kehar Singh, 47 accused of inspiring the killing, should hang “The court was ruling on an appeal by the three Sikhs who were sentenced to death after a trial in 1986.
Article extracted from this publication >> July 30, 1993
