The Punjab and Haryana High Court has commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment till death of Jagtar Singh Hawara, the Prime Accused in the killing of Chief Minister Beant Singh in 1995. A division bench comprising Justices Mehtab Singh Gill and Arvind Kumar said today that Hawara’s case is boundary line for death. The Court, however, upheld the death sentence given by the trial court to another accused Balwant Singh. It also confirmed the life sentence of three others – Shamsher Singh, Gurmeet Singh and Lakhwinder Singh.Hawara and Balwant Singh were awarded death sentence by a Special Court in Chandigarh on July 31, 2007, nearly 12 years after the assassination. Suicide bomber Dilawar Singh and his accomplices killed 73-year-old Beant Singh in a blast on August 31, 1995 at the entrance of the 10-storeyed civil secretariat in Chandigarh. 17 others were also killed in the blast. Dilawar Singh too was killed. In all, 15 persons had been named as accused in the charge sheet.