India, Nov. 12 -- A special CBI court in Mohali on Thursday sentenced former senior superintendent of police (SSP) Gurmeet Singh Randhawa to five years' imprisonment in the 1992 abduction and disappearance of transporter Amrik Singh Shakri, who was picked up by a Tarn Taran police team from a Ludhiana hotel while attending a wedding.

The court awarded Randhawa five years in prison under Section 365 (kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine person) and two years under Section 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Both sentences will run concurrently.

The verdict comes nearly 34 years after the incident. Co-accused constable Parminderjit Singh, represented by advocate HS Dhanoa, was acqu...