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Wife killer NRI Spent 8 years in UK jail and now will Serve 20 years in India
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After 8 yrs in UK jail, NRI murder convict will serve 20 in India
Eight years after being sentenced to 28-year jail by London court for killing wife, Harpreet Aulakh is first international transfer in Punjab under Repatriation of Prisoners Act signed with UK.
india Updated: Aug 28, 2018 08:30 IST
Almost eight years after he was sentenced to 28 years in jail by a London court for killing his wife Geeta Aulakh on November 16, 2009, Harpreet Aulakh, a UK-based Non Resident Indian, will be shifted from London to the Amritsar Central Jail on Tuesday.
This is the first international transfer of a prisoner to Punjab under the Repatriation of Prisoners Act signed by India and the UK. A three-member team of the Punjab prison department will take Harpreet’s custody from UK officials that is escorting him to the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi.
“In the first week of July, we got a communiqué from the ministry of external affairs that Aulakh wanted to be shifted to Amritsar to serve the remaining term of his 28-year punishment. After completing formalities, the jail department issued a no objection certificate, and now he will be shifted to the Amritsar prison,” Punjab minister of jails Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa said on Monday.
“Formalities have been completed and Harpreet will land in Delhi on Tuesday from where he will be brought to the central jail in Amritsar,” said inspector general (IG), prisons, Roop Kumar.
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UK wife killer to be repatriated to India
An Indian man currently serving a jail term in the UK for murdering his wife will be repatriated to India, a top prison official has told BBC Punjabi.
Harpreet Aulakh was sentenced to a minimum of 28 years in a UK prison in December 2010 for ordering the murder of Geeta Aulakh.
Mother-of-two Ms Aulakh, 28, had her hand severed with a machete during the attack in Greenford, London, in 2009.
Aulakh ordered the murder after she asked for a divorce.
IPS Sahota, a top prison official in the northern Indian state of Punjab, told BBC Punjabi's Arvind Chhabra that Aulakh would arrive in India on Tuesday and would be sent to a prison in Amritsar district.
"All arrangements are in place. According to the plan, the UK authorities will bring him to Delhi from where a team of Punjab police officers will bring him to Amritsar," Mr Sahota said.
From loving husband to 'smug' killer
Husband guilty of Geeta Aulakh murder
Inspector general of prisons Roop Kumar said Aulakh, who is from Punjab, had told the UK authorities that he wanted to serve his remaining term in India.
The officials added that the transfer was made possible under international arrangements like the Repatriation of Prisoners Act.
In November 2009, Geeta, Aulakh's wife of 10 years and the mother of his two sons, was hacked to death in Greenford with a 14in machete which he himself had chosen from a selection of swords at a store days before the attack.
The attack took place when Geeta Aulakh went to pick up her two sons after leaving work at a community radio station where she was a receptionist.
She was found with head injuries and her right hand severed, and died a few hours later in hospital.
Aulakh, also known as Sunny, and two others - Sher Singh, 19, of Southall, and Jaswant Dhillon, 30, of Ilford, east London - were also found guilty of Geeta Aulakh's murder.
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UPDATED-December 2010
- Harpreet Aulakh was sentenced to a minimum of 28 years in a UK prison in December 2010 for ordering the murder of Geeta Aulakh.
- Jaswant Singh Dhillon, also known as Taljit Singh, 30, was also unanimously found guilty and sentenced to life with a 22 year minimum.
- Sher Singh, 19, who carried out the attack was sentenced to custody for life and a minimum of 22 years.
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NRI husband offered 5,000 pounds to someone to kill his wife
Man ordered killing of Indian-origin wife, court told
London, Oct 19, 2010-- An Indian-origin woman was hacked to death with a machete by contract killers on the orders of her estranged husband because she wanted a divorce, a British court has heard.
Geeta Aulakh, 28, was hacked to death allegedly by three men, all of them of Indian-origin, in November last year in Greenford, London, Daily Mail reported Tuesday.
Her husband Harpreet Aulakh, 32, had offered 5,000 pounds in a room full of Punjabi men for "someone to be murdered", the Old Bailey court heard Monday.
Prosecutor Aftab Jafferjee said: "His reaction displayed a chilling belief, almost certainly culturally rooted, in male unaccountability. How dare a mere woman, as he and other like-minded accomplices viewed her, challenge that smug, chauvinist mind-set. Geeta was in the process of divorcing him and that would not be tolerated."
Jafferjee told jurors the marriage had broken down for a long time. "It was the stigma of divorce, particularly for her, which let the marriage live on. She ultimately decided she had a life to lead, but away from him," he said.
According to the report, on Sep 29 last year, just over a month before her death, Geeta had written a Facebook message to her husband in which she said: "I have never hated anyone in my life, but you."
She had finished her day working as a receptionist at Sunrise Radio in Southall, West London, Nov 16 last year and was on her way to a child minder in nearby Greenford, where her children were waiting for her, the jury heard.
"She never got to collect them," said Jafferjee.
"The man who organised this murder was none other than her own husband. No one else could possibly wish this utterly innocent, hard-working woman and mother any harm."
The court heard Harpreet warned his wife's sister Anita Singh he would kill her because he thought she was having an affair.
Harpreet admitted his marriage was in difficulties but denied any involvement in the killing.
The other accused in the case -- Harpreet Singh, 20, of Slough, Berkshire, Sher Singh, 19, of Southall, and Jaswant Singh Dhillon, 30, of Seven Kings, East London -- also denied murder charges.
Geeta signed her divorce petition Sep 7 citing verbal abuse, accusations of infidelity and domestic violence, the report said.....ians/NRIpress
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