New Delhi: Ex- Punjab CM Beant Singh’s assassin Jagtar Singh ‘Tara’ was arrested in Thailand on Monday.
Tara was nabbed by Thai authorities on a tip-off about his movements by the Punjab Police. As per reports, he was arrested from the house of a man who was sheltering Tara at the behest of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.
Self-styled commander of terror outfit Khalistan Tiger Force, Jagtar Singh ‘Tara’ was one of the masterminds in the brutal assassination of Beant Singh by a human bomb outside Punjab Secretariat in Chandigarh on August 31, 1995. Besides Beant Singh, 17 others had lost their lives in the blast.
According to reports, Thai authorities, acting on a tip-off from the Punjab Police, arrested Tara from the house of a member of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). Tara is accused of planning the suicide attack on Beant Singh in 1995 in Chandigarh, an act of terror that resulted in the death of 18 people.
The Khalistan Tiger Force commander and his accomplices Paramjit Singh Bheora, Jagtar Singh Hawara and Dev Singh were arrested after the incident but escaped from the high security Burail Jail in Chandigarh. According to reports, Tara was living in Thailand under a Pakistani passport.
Bureau Report
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