Nabha jail break | Patiala court today sentenced all 22 accused to 10-year rigorous imprisonment, six others were acquitted by the Court.
Patiala, March 23,2023: Patiala court today sentenced 20 accused to 10-year rigorous imprisonment, one to five years and another convict for 3 years impriosonment six others were acquitted by the Court. Out of 20 accused two have been held guilty on two counts and have been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment separately in each but punishment will run concurrently.
The court of Additional District & Session Judge Sh H S Grewal convicted 22 accused and acquitted 6 out total 28 arrested after the daring jail break in November 2016.
The list of convicted accused is as under :
Gurpreet Sekhon, Kulpreet Singh Neeta Deol, Amandeep Dhotian, Bikar Singh, Sukhchain Singh, Manvir Singh alias Mani Sekhon, Gurpreet Singh Khorra, Harjot Singh alias Jot, Bikkar Singh, Rajvinder Singh alias Raju Sultan, Palwinder Singh alias Pinda, Gurjeet alias Ladda, Ravinder Singh alias Geyana, Sulkhan Singh alias Babbar, Jagmeet Singh, Sukhchain Singh alias Sukhi, Jagatveer Singh alias Jagta, Kiranpal Singh alias Kirna, Manjinder Singh, Sunil Kalra and Aman Kumar.
Here is the list of the acquitted persons:
Tajinder Sharma alias Happy, Ranjeet Singh, Mohmad Asim, Varinder Singh alias Ricky Sahota, Naresh Narang and Jatinder Singh alias Toni.
The court has held them guilty under sections 120 (B), 395, 307, 353, 186, 148, 468 and 471 of the IPC.
Nine jail officials and other private individuals, who were booked earlier, have been found innocent during the investigation and the police discharged them from the FIR.
Eight more accused could not be arrested so far. These include two escapees, four executors and Hong Kong-based accused Romi .