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The following list of prominent Sikh prisoners lists Sikh prisoners who are serving jail terms in various cases.

Photo	Name	Criminal status
	Gurdeep Singh Khera	Life imprisonment ^{[lower-alpha 1]}
	A resident of Jallupur Khera village in Amritsar district, Gurdeep Singh Khera has been serving a life sentence for the last 32 years in a case registered under Sections 302, 307, 427, and 120-B of IPC and Sections of the TADA Act and 3 of Explosive Act, at Bidar (Karnataka). He was arrested in 1990 and was given a life term by a TADA Court, in Karnataka, in 1991. He was in Karnataka’s Gulbarga jail from 1990 to June 2015 and then he was shifted to the Amritsar jail. He has been granted parole since 2016.
	Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar	Life imprisonment ^{[lower-alpha 2]}
	A resident of Dialpura Bhai Ka village in Bathinda district, Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar was a chemical engineering professor at Guru Nanak Engineering College, Ludhiana, before being convicted by a TADA court in the case of the killing of nine people and injuring 31, including Congress leader MS Bitta, in a bomb blast in 1993 in New Delhi. He was awarded the death sentence in 2001. His death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by the Supreme Court on March 31, 2014. He has been in jail for the last 28 years and is currently in the Central Jail, Amritsar. Earlier, he was in the Tihar Jail, in Delhi.
	Balwant Singh Rajoana	Death sentence ^{[lower-alpha 3]}
	A resident of Rajoana Kalan village, Ludhiana district, Balwant Singh Rajoana is a death row convict in the 1995 case of the assassination of former Punjab CM Beant Singh. A cop-turned-militant, he has been serving in jail for the last 27 years and is currently lodged in the Central Jail, Patiala. His death sentence was stayed by the Union home ministry by an order dated March 28, 2012.
	Jagtar Singh Hawara	Life imprisonment
	A resident of Hawara village in Fatehgarh Sahib district, Jagtar Singh Hawara has been a militant of the Babbar Khalsa International (BKI). In connection with the Beant Singh assassination case, he has been serving life imprisonment in the Tihar Jail, Delhi, for the last 27 years. In 2010, the Punjab and Haryana High Court commuted the death sentence awarded to Hawara, one of the prime accused in the assassination case, to life imprisonment. He along with the other two accused fled from the Burail Jail, Chandigarh, in 2004 and was re-arrested in 2005. Appeal pending in Supreme Court of India. Cases are also pending against him in Mohali and Chandigarh court
	Lakhwinder Singh Lakha	Life imprisonment
	A resident of Guru Nanak Nagar, Patiala, Lakhwinder Singh Lakha has been serving life imprisonment since 1995 in the Beant Singh assassination case and is lodged in the Model Jail, Burail, Chandigarh. He was part of the conspiracy of the assassination that was executed by suicide bomber Dilawar Singh. Lakha was a driver in the Punjab Police and was posted at the Civil Secretariat, Chandigarh when the assassination took place. Under the plan of eliminating the CM, he was assigned to do a recce of the Civil Secretariat. This role helped execute the conspiracy. He has been granted parole many times.
	Gurmeet Singh	Life imprisonment ^{[lower-alpha 4]}
	A resident of Guru Nagar, Patiala, Gurmeet Singh is an engineer by profession. He has been serving life imprisonment for the last 27 years in the Beant Singh assassination case and is lodged in the Model Jail, Burail, Chandigarh. Being an engineer, he helped other convicts make a bomb that was used for killing the then CM. He came out of jail many times on parole.
	Shamsher Singh	Life imprisonment
	A resident of Ukasi Jattan village in Patiala district, Shamsher Singh has been serving life imprisonment in the Beant Singh assassination case for the last 27 years. He is currently lodged in the Model Jail, Burail, Chandigarh. He has also been granted parole many times. He was a truck driver by profession before the assassination and he along with the prime accused, Jagtar Singh Hawara, transported RDX from the India-Pakistan border in the Ajnala area of Amritsar district to Patiala and Ropar where it was kept for making the bomb.
	Paramjit Singh Bheora	Life imprisonment
	A resident of Bheora village in Ropar district, Paramjit Singh Bheora is another key convict in the Beant Singh assassination case. He was a member of the Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) and an aide of prime convict Jagtar Singh Hawara. He has served 25 years in jail under a life sentence and is currently lodged in the Model Jail, Burail, Chandigarh. He remained in jail from 1997 to 2004 till a Burail jailbreak and he was re-arrested in 2006.
	Jagtar Singh Tara	Life imprisonment
	A resident of Dekwala village in Ropar, Jagtar Singh Tara has served 17 years in jail in the case Beant Singh assassination case and is currently lodged in the Model Jail, Burail, Chandigarh. After being arrested in 1995, he remained behind bars till 2004 when he along with other accused Jagtar Singh Hawara and Paramjit Singh Bheora fled from the Burail Jail. He was re-arrested after more than 10 years from Thailand and extradited to India. In December 2017, he confessed to the crime in the District Court of Chandigarh and On March 17, 2018, he was awarded life imprisonment in the assassination case. One case at Patiala and two cases in Jalandhar are pending.
	Daya Singh Lahoria	Life imprisonment ^{[lower-alpha 5]}
	Former militant Daya Singh Lahoria is a resident of Kasba Bharal of Sangrur district. In a kidnapping case, he has been serving a jail term since 1995 a life sentence. He has spent 27 years in jail. He was awarded life imprisonment by a Jaipur court in 2004 for abducting Rajendra Mirdha, the son of senior Rajasthan Congress leader Ram Niwas Mirdha. Lahoria and two others had allegedly abducted him with a view to pressurizing the then Narasimha Rao government for releasing the 1993 Delhi blast accused Devendra Pal Singh Bhullar in 1994. He had fled to the United States. On March 20, 2009, Daya Singh Lahoria was extradited from the US.
	Harnek Singh Bhap	unknown
	A resident of Butahri in Ludhiana district, Harnek Singh Bhap is in jail since 2004. He spent 18 years in jail. Since 2021, he is being granted parole. He is a former militant of the Khalistan Liberation Force. He along with others abducted home minister Ram Niwas Mirdha’s son Rajinder Mirdha on February 17, 1995, for the release of the 1993 Delhi blast accused Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar.

Notes[edit]

↑ The Union government issued a notification for Khera’s release on the eve of the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak.
↑ The Union government issued a notification for his release on the eve of the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak. The writ petition for his release is pending before Punjab and Haryana High Court.
↑ The Union government issued a notification for converting his death sentence into life imprisonment on the eve of the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak. A writ petition for commuting the death sentence to a life sentence is pending in the Supreme Court of India. The Supreme Court in May 2022 directed the Centre to decide within two months Rajoana’s plea that his death penalty be commuted to life imprisonment on the ground of his long incarceration. However, the Centre has not decided yet.
↑ A writ petition for premature release is pending in the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
↑ He is presently released on permanent parole since December 13, 2021. One case from 1987 is pending in Ludhiana. He is on bail in this case.

References[edit]

[1] The Union government issued a notification for Khera’s release on the eve of the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak.

[2] The Union government issued a notification for his release on the eve of the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak. The writ petition for his release is pending before Punjab and Haryana High Court.

[3] The Union government issued a notification for converting his death sentence into life imprisonment on the eve of the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak. A writ petition for commuting the death sentence to a life sentence is pending in the Supreme Court of India. The Supreme Court in May 2022 directed the Centre to decide within two months Rajoana’s plea that his death penalty be commuted to life imprisonment on the ground of his long incarceration. However, the Centre has not decided yet.

[4] A writ petition for premature release is pending in the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

[5] He is presently released on permanent parole since December 13, 2021. One case from 1987 is pending in Ludhiana. He is on bail in this case.

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	The following '''list of prominent Sikh prisoners''' lists Sikh prisoners who are serving jail terms in various cases.		The following '''list of prominent Sikh prisoners''' lists Sikh prisoners who are serving jail terms in various cases.