{"id":2265,"date":"2006-09-04T17:20:54","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T17:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/09\/04\/british-asian-murder-eight-appear-in-court\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T16:35:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T16:35:29","slug":"british-asian-murder-eight-appear-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/04\/british-asian-murder-eight-appear-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"British Asian Murder &#8211; Eight appear in Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"152\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"203\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"10\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/mohansingh.jpg\"\/>EIGHT people have appeared in court in India charged with the brutal murder of a Leicester businessman in the Punjab last August.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>59-year-old father of two Mohan Singh Biring, was in the Punjab on business in August 2005 when he was beaten to death with iron bars outside a restaurant.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The trial, which has been delayed by a number of months, has begun at the Jalandhar District Court and is expected to last several months. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mr Biring&#8217;s family believed his death was a contract killing and linked to a business deal he was involved in. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>They expressed anger months after the killing after Indian police admitted they had not arrested anyone as part of the investigation. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>They were supported in their quest for justice by Leicester MP Keith Vaz who presented a 10,000-signature petition to Parliament calling for action in the case. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mr Singh&#8217;s brother, Tirath Biring, who is a councillor in Oadby and Wigston, flew out to meet the police and government officials along with Mr Vaz early in 2006 to urge the police to step up their investigation.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EIGHT people have appeared in court in India charged with the brutal murder of a Leicester businessman in the Punjab last August. &#13; 59-year-old father of two Mohan Singh Biring, was in the Punjab on business in August 2005 when he was beaten to death with iron bars outside a restaurant. &#13; The trial, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}