Reward offered for politician killers

Reward offered for politician killers

NEW DELHI (AFP): India's authorities yesterday announced a
reward of one million rupees (US$33,000) in a bid track down the
assassins of chief minister of the northern state of Punjab.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said the money would
be given to anyone who gave information which led to the arrest
of suspects involved in Thursday's assassination of Punjab Chief
Minister Beant Singh.

Beant Singh, 73, was killed along with 15 others in the Punjab
capital Chandigarh when a powerful bomb exploded as he got into
his bullet-proof car in the foyer of the government secretariat.
Nearly 20 others were injured in the deafening blast.

Babbar Khalsa, a Sikh militant group which was thought to have
been wiped out in a police crackdown in Punjab three years ago,
claimed responsibility for the attack.