The family members of the victims were present in court during the pronouncement of the sentence and were visibly emotional. All of them were in tears, expressed relief and said that justice had finally been ‘served’.On August 1, the court found them guilty of criminal conspiracy, murder, destruction of evidence and forgery under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).The CBI had registered the case in 1999 based on a statement by Narinder Kaur, wife of SPO Shinder Singh, whose body had been cremated as unclaimed.On December 12, 1996, on the directive of the Supreme Court, this case was handed over to the CBI, in connection with the mass cremation of unidentified bodies in Punjab.In the CBI investigation, it came to light that a police party, led by the then Station House Officer of Sarhali Gurdev Singh (who died during trial), forcibly picked up SPOs Shinder Singh, Desa Singh, Sukhdev Singh and two others, Balkar Singh alias Bobby and Daljit Singh from the house of a government contractor Joginder Singh, where they were on duty as gunmen on June 27, 1993.
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