The Supreme Court on Friday postponed for two weeks the hearing on a plea filed by Babbar Khalsa operative Jagtar Singh Hawara, who is serving a life sentence for the 1995 assassination of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh. Hawara has sought to be shifted from Delhi’s Tihar Jail to a prison in Punjab.

A bench headed by Chief Justice B.R. Gavai, sitting with Justice Vijay Bishnoi, adjourned the matter after a brief hearing. The court had earlier, on September 27 last year, issued notices to the Union government, the Chandigarh administration, and the Delhi and Punjab governments on Hawara’s transfer request.

Hawara is undergoing imprisonment for life “till the rest of his life” for his role in the August 31, 1995 blast outside the Chandigarh civil secretariat that killed Beant Sing

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