Former Punjab SSP gets seven-year sentence in 1992 transporter abduction case

Neeraj Bali Chandigarh, Nov 12 (UNI) A special CBI court in Mohali on Thursday awarded former Punjab Police Senior Superintendent of Police Gurmeet Singh Randhawa prison terms of five and two years in the 1992 abduction of a Ludhiana-based transporter who has remained missing for nearly 34 years. The court imposed a five-year sentence and a fine of Rs 50,000 under Section 365 of the Indian Penal Code, relating to kidnapping with intent to secretly and wrongfully confine a person, and a two-year sentence with a fine of Rs 25,000 under Section 120B for criminal conspiracy. According to the sentencing…