TADA convict Khera brought to Punjab from Karnataka

Amritsar: Gurdeep Singh Khera, convicted in two separate cases under TADA in 1996 and 2001, was brought to Punjab from Karnataka. He had petitioned the Karnataka government on December 12, 2013, asking for a transfer, after which the Punjab Government gave a no objection certificate last year. Punjab officials have been pursuing the Karnataka government to speed up his transfer ever since. A native of Jallupur Khera village in Amritsar, Khera was booked under Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (TADA) Prevention Act and later sentenced to life imprisonment in two different cases registered in 1996 in New Delhi and Karnataka and handed out a life term under TADA by a court in Karnataka on December 15 in 1991. He was brought in the wee hours to avoid confrontation with Hindu radical groups who had threatened to stage a protest.