Extradited Babbar Khalsa militant Jagtar Singh Tara was on Saturday remanded in police custody for five days by a court here in connection with the murder of the chief of the Rashtriya Sikh Sangat.
Amid tight security, Tara, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in the then Chief Minister Beant Singh’s assassination case, was produced before Duty Magistrate Jagmeet Singh in the murder case of Rashtriya Sikh Sangat chief Rulda Singh, a day after he was extradited from Thailand and handed over to the Punjab Police.
The prosecution sought two weeks’ police remand on the grounds that they had to thoroughly quiz Tara in connection with the Rulda murder case as he had allegedly imparted arms training to a main accused in the case while hiding in Pakistan. However, Tara’s counsel denied the allegations.
Later, the court sent Tara to a five-day police remand.
Rulda Singh, head of RSS-affiliated Rashtriya Sikh Sangat, was attacked on July 28, 2009 here. He was shot while he was closing the rear gate of his house after parking his vehicle, and, succumbed to his injuries on August 15, 2009 at PGIMER, Chandigarh.
A case was registered in police station Tripuri here in this regard.
Tara, 37, had tunnelled his way out of high-security Burail prison in Chandigarh in 2004 and was since absconding. He travelled under various identities before being nabbed in Thailand on January 5 this year.
According to Thai authorities, Tara entered Thailand as Gurmeet Singh on a Pakistani passport in October and was arrested in the eastern Province of Chon Buri living in the home of a Pakistani national who has also been taken into custody.
