Jagtar Singh Tara, a convict in the assassination of the former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh, was extradited to India from Thailand on Friday.
Tara had escaped from Chandigarh’s high-security Burail Jail, along with three others, in 2004 through a tunnel dug by them. His co-conspirators Jagtar Singh Hawara and Paramjit Singh Bheora, later convicted in the case, were arrested by the Delhi Police in 2005-06.
However, Tara fled the country and met the chief of Babbar Khalsa International, Wadhawa Singh, in Pakistan. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) got a red-corner notice issued against him through Interpol.
