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Tracing tricity's journey through flashback
Hindustan Times Chandigarh
|April 19, 2025
Hindustan Times reflects on a quarter of a century of headline-making moments in Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali: While growing violence, particularly gang wars, and infrastructure pressures are concerns, the heritage status for Capitol Complex and fast-expanding tricity are silver linings that show the past & future can coexist as we celebrate the tricity's journey
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The 2004 Burail jailbreak by four inmates, including assassins of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, by digging a 109-ft tunnel made national headlines. On the night of January 21, 2004, the four undertrials, including Beant Singh assassins Babbar Khalsa International chief Jagtar Singh Hawara, BKI India head Paramjeet Singh Bheora and their accomplice Jagtar Singh Tara, along with their cook Devi Singh, a murder accused, escaped from barrack number 7 by digging a tunnel. Hawara was rearrested in 2005 for his involvement in twin blasts in Delhi, while Bheora was rearrested by Delhi Police in 2006. Tara was caught in Thailand in January 2015, while Devi Singh is believed to be hiding in Pakistan. There were 23 accused in the case, including five jail officials. An accused died during the t
This story is from the April 19, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Chandigarh.
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