Punjab Minister gets five-year jail term for conspiracy in daughter's death

Punjab Minister Jagir Kaur was sent to jail today after she was convicted and sentenced to five years imprisonment by a CBI court for conspiring in forcible abortion and abduction of her daughter, Harpeet Kaur 12 years ago.
The 57-year-old minister, who broke down in the CBI court after special CBI judge Balbir Singh pronounced the sentence, was however, acquitted of the murder charge.
Ms. Kaur was immediately taken into judicial custody and was taken to the Central Jail at Patiala.
She was convicted under Sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy) read with 313 (forcible abortion- causing miscarriage without woman's consent), 344 (wrongful confinement for more than 10 days) and 365 (kidnapping or abduction with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine a person) of the IPC.
Harpeet had died under mysterious circumstances during the interveening night of April 20 and 21, 2000 in Ludhiana's Christian Medical College and Hospital.
No post morten was conducted after her family claimed that there was no foul play and that Harpeet had died following severe dehydration, vomiting and fever.  She was cremated in a hurried manner on April 21st at Kaur's home village Begowal in Kapurthala.
Ms. Kaur and five others have been charge-sheeted in the case.
Of them, Dalwinder Kaur Desai, Paramjit Singh Raipur and Nishan Singh were also convicted on conspiracy charges.
Another accused namely Sathya Devi was acquitted of all the charges while the fifth accused Sanjiv Kumar died during the trial.

Punjab Minister gets five-year jail term for conspiracy in daughter's death

News reported by AR for News Vision - Online News Paper

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