Bharat Express

Beant Singh

The SC granted the Union govt four more weeks to decide on Balwant Singh Rajoana's mercy petition in the 1995 Beant Singh assassination case.

Hawara, serving life imprisonment, was arrested in 2005. He remains in Tihar Jail since then. He has now filed a petition seeking to be transferred to Punjab. Last year, a lower court acquitted him in a case registered 18 years ago

Rajoana has spent nearly 28 years in jail. He cites delays in processing his mercy petition as grounds for his appeal