Today, Chandigarh Court has granted bail to Gurmeet Singh, convicted of the assassination of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh.

The bench of Chief Judicial Magistrate Aman Inder Singh Sandhu granted him bail on two sureties of Rs 2 lakh each.

Advocates Jaspal Singh Manjpur and Dilsher Singh Jandiala, counsel for Singh have filed the bail application in view of the order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court passed in January to release all those convicts on regular bail who had completed their life sentences but the decision with regard to their permanent release is pending before competent authorities.

Earlier, Lakhwinder Singh , another convict, was released from Chandigarh's Burail jail on bail in May.

Gurmeet has been behind bars for over 27 years.Gurmeet sought release on the grounds that he had already completed 27 years in jail. He contended that he should not be discriminated against as various other life imprisonment convicts had been released on completion of 14 years of sentence.