Patiala: A local court on Friday sentenced five policemen, including a Deputy Superintendent of Police, to life imprisonment for the custodial death of a man in 1996.

Additional Sessions Judge Kuldeep Singh also awarded two years sentence to another policeman Jasdev Singh in this case. Rajinder Pal Singh Anand, a DSP with Punjab Police posted at Nabha, and five other police personnel were convicted by the court after it upheld the charges against them in a case pertaining to the custodial death of Balbir Singh, a mason at Shahpur village in Sangrur district.

Balbir was arrested on July 28, 1996 on the complaint of a local Gurdwara Tibbi Sahib management that he had stolen utensils.

DSP Rainder Pal Singh Anand was an inspector at Nabha and held additional charge of Kotwali police station, where the case against Balbir was registered. PTI

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