Overview
- A special CBI court in Mohali convicted former Tarn Taran SSP Gurmeet Singh Randhawa for the 1992 disappearance of transporter Amrik Singh Sakri, with the ruling delivered on Wednesday, November 11, 2026.
- The court sentenced Randhawa to seven years in prison when it pronounced the quantum of punishment on Thursday, November 12, 2026.
- The case began after the Supreme Court ordered a CBI probe in the 1990s, the agency registered the case in February 2000 and filed a chargesheet in November 2001 naming five police officers.
- The prosecution was hampered for decades by stays, the disappearance of key materials such as witness statements, photographs, videos and logbooks, and the deaths of several witnesses and three accused, forcing courts to order reconstruction of files before the trial resumed in 2022.
- The conviction offers limited accountability for the family after 34 years but leaves open broader questions about institutional responsibility because much evidence never surfaced and only a minority of listed witnesses gave testimony.