Amritsar – Gurdeep Singh Khaira, a Sikh prisoner who is serving life imprisonment in a case under TADA and is lodged in Karnatka’s Gulbarga jail is likely to be brought to Amritsar Central Jail on June 25.
He would be the second Sikh prisoner lodged in jails outside Punjab to be brought to the state. Earlier, Prof Devinderpal Singh Bhullar was shifted from Delhi’s Tihar Jail to Amritsar jail on June 12.
Khaira is being brought from Gulbarga by train under Karnataka Police protection and is likely to be handed over to Amritsar central jail authorities today on June 25.
“All families regarding his transffer have been completed,” ADGP (jails) Raj Pal Meena has been quoted as saying.
55-year old Khaira, a resident of Jallupur Khera village Amritsar was booked under TADA and later sentenced to life imprisonment in two different cases registered in 1996 in New Delhi and Karnataka. He was handed over life term by a court in Bider on December 15, 1991.
Arrested on December 6, 1990, Khaira has so far spent more than 24 years in jail and has never been releasaed from jail since then.
Khaira had petitioned Karnataka government and sought transfer to Punjab in December 2013. Karnataka government then referred his case to the government of Punjab and the Punjab prison department gave a no-objection certificate to Karnataka prison authorities for transferring him to a jail in Punjab.