Neeraj BaliChandigarh, Nov. 12 -- A special CBI court in Mohali on Thursday awarded former Punjab Police Senior Superintendent of Police Gurmeet Singh Randhawa prison terms of five and two years in the 1992 abduction of a Ludhiana-based transporter who has remained missing for nearly 34 years.
The court imposed a five-year sentence and a fine of Rs 50,000 under Section 365 of the Indian Penal Code, relating to kidnapping with intent to secretly and wrongfully confine a person, and a two-year sentence with a fine of Rs 25,000 under Section 120B for criminal conspiracy.
According to the sentencing order, both sentences will run concurrently, making the effective prison term five years. Randhawa appeared before the court through video confer...