A bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Vinod Chandran said, “You were part of Operation Sindoor, this does not give you the freedom to commit atrocities at home. You see how physically fit you are, this shows that you must have strangled your wife to death.”

India retaliated for the Pahalgam attack on April 22. Air strikes were carried out in Pakistan and PoK at 1:05 am on the intervening night of May 6-7. It was named Operation Sindoor.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to grant permission to surrender to the police to the accused in the dowry murder case. The accused argued before the court that he was part of Operation Sindoor. The accused said- I have been a Black Cat commando in the Rashtriya Rifles for 20 years.

The Supreme Court has given its verdict in this 20-year-old case. In 2004, the accused Baljinder was convicted by the trial court of Amritsar. Baljinder appealed against this in the High Court.

2. Baljinder was serving his sentence on the order of the trial court. During this time, the High Court had stayed the sentence as the accused had already spent more than 3 years in jail. Secondly, Baljinder’s appeal was also pending in the High Court. The High Court had allowed him to stay out of jail.

3. Almost 20 years later, in May 2025, the High Court upheld Baljinder’s 10-year sentence. Baljinder moved the Supreme Court against this decision. The Supreme Court refused to exempt him from surrendering to the police and gave him 2 weeks to surrender.

Accused of murdering his wife in 2002

This case is from 2002. Accused Baljinder Singh was accused of murdering his wife. The deceased woman’s brother and sister-in-law were witnesses in this case. Apart from Baljinder, his father, mother and sister were also accused. The trial court acquitte