16 gets life term for Fake encounter
LUCKNOW: A CBI court in Ghaziabad on Thursday found 17 policemen guilty and sentenced 16 of them to life imprisonment. They were charged of killing an alleged Sikh militant, Jaivender Singh Jasna of Amritsar, in a fake encounter happened in 1992. A fine of Rs 5000 was also slapped on them. One person was given seven years imprisonment.
Incident took place in Bardpur, Bijnore, on October 31, 1992 when Jasna, a “sewadar” (worker) at Gurdwara Rakabganj in New Delhi, was gunned down by a team of 17 policemen in .The police claimed that an AK-56 rifle and 24 cartridges were also recovered. Jasna was suspected of handling Sikh militancy in the Terai region of UP by them.
The incident similar to such mass convictions took place in Nagpur where eight people were convicted for massacring a Dalit family in 2006-six of them got death sentences and two life imprisonment.
