A court here today held Jagtar Singh Tara guilty in a case pertaining to the assassination of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh.
The court of additional district and session judge J S Sidhu will pronounce the quantum of sentence tomorrow, Tara's counsel Simranjit Singh said.
Tara (43) had earlier confessed to his involvement in the assassination of Beant Singh in 1995.
Simranjit Singh said Tara had admitted to his involvement in the assassination of former chief minister in a confession letter which he had submitted to the court in January this year.
On August 31, 1995, then chief minister Beant Singh was killed in an explosion outside the Civil Secretariat in Chandigarh. Punjab police employee Dilawar Singh had acted as a human bomb in the incident.
Tara along with two others had fled the Central jail in Burail, while main accused was still on trial. In February 2004, non-bailable warrants were issued against him and in May 2004, he was declared a proclaimed offender.
The then chief minister of Punjab Beant Singh was killed in an explosion outside the Civil Secretariat in Chandigarh on August 31, 1995. Punjab police employee Dilawar Singh had acted as a human bomb in the incident. The police had taken nine accused in custody, out of whom the fate of eight has been already decided.
Tara had confessed to assassinating former Punjab chief minister during the hearing in the case in January, and said he had no regrets for his act.
Tara had submitted a six-page confession in the court of additional district and sessions judge JS Sidhu, where he recorded his statements under Section 313 of the CrPC during the proceedings held at the Burail jail.
Besides admitting to the crime, he also gave a detailed explanation for the assassination.
Tara had earlier three times confessed to the court: "I have no regret for killing Beant Singh."
In his confession, he has also said that Shaheed Udham Singh, who assassinated Lieutenant Governor of Punjab Michael O'Dwyer in 1919, was his inspiration to kill the Congress leader
