Tribune News Service

Amritsar, October 5

Subheg Singh (75), an ex-serviceman, was on Friday released from the Amritsar Central Jail two months before the full period of his sentence. He was sentenced to 12-year imprisonment in six different cases related to cheque bounce in May 2013. He was released from the jail to mark the Gandhi Jayanti celebrations.

Subheg Singh, a resident of Patti, said someone had filed cases of cheque bounce against him in a local court and he could not prove himself innocent. Therefore, he was sentenced to imprisonment. Singh said he lost his son during this period and now his daughter-in-law along with his two grandsons came to jail to meet him. He was finding it difficult to come to the terms as he was getting older.

Expressing happiness, he thanked the jail authorities for making efforts for his early release. He also paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi before his release from the jail on Friday.