New Delhi: The wife of 1993 Delhi blast convict Devinderpal Singh Bhullar moved the Supreme Court on Tuesday for a stay on the execution of his death sentence. The Supreme Court says that she will have to approach the same bench that delivered the verdict.
The Supreme Court had earlier this month rejected the mercy petition of Bhullar, who had sought commutation of his death penalty to life sentence on the ground that there was inordinate delay by the President over his plea for clemency. The court said that delay cannot be a ground for commuting death sentence to a life term. Bhullar was sentenced to death in 2003 for carrying out a bomb blast outside the Delhi Youth Congress office in 1993 that left nine people dead.
The court observed that the petitioner could not make out a case for commuting his death penalty. "The Supreme Court should have considered our plea," Bhullar's wife said reacting to the verdict.
Bhullar had also sought mercy on grounds that he has been mentally unfit for the past 11 years. "If someone is mentally sick that person cannot be executed, we will have to go through the judgement," lawyer Majid Memon said. ...
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12:44 PM, May 07, 2013
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the mercy petition of 1993 Delhi blast accused Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, who had sought commutation of his death penalty to life sentence on the ground that there was inordinate delay by the President over his plea for clemency. MS Bitta, who escaped Bhullar's attack in 1993, has welcomed the verdict. He said, "I welcome the Supreme Court verdict. The Congress helped Bhullar get ...
01:13 PM, Apr 12, 2013
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the mercy petition of 1993 Delhi blast accused Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, who had sought commutation of his death penalty to life sentence on the ground that there was inordinate delay by the President over his plea for clemency. But advocating his life sentence is human rights activist, Navkiran Singh. Navkiran said, "Solitary confinement made Bhullar a mental wreck. The President wasn't told that ...
12:39 PM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Friday directed a civic agency to issue death certificates to the family of three men killed in a 2005 bomb blast to facilitate payment of compensation to them. The court's direction came after police said that even after seven years of the blast, all the three men could not be traced. Police said they had filed a report that the victims were untraceable so...
02:26 AM, Dec 21, 2012
Srinagar: Syed Maqbool Shah spent 14 years in jail before he was acquitted and released two years back in the 1996 Lajpat Nagar blast case. But a normal life still eludes the 36-year-old who now says he's done fighting. After failing to get a job and get back to normal life, he says life outside prison has been more cruel than inside. "I am neither a stone nor a tree....
07:37 AM, Dec 02, 2012
New Delhi: The judicial custody of Fasih Memhmood, a suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist and an accused in Delhi and Bangalore blasts, will end on Friday. A court had on November 1 sent Fasih to judicial custody after Special Cell of Delhi Police, which had arrested him at IGI Airport after his deportation from Saudi Arabia recently, said it no longer needed his custody for interrogation. The court had also ordered...
06:37 AM, Nov 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Government on Monday termed the arrest of suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist Fasih Mohammad as a "very important catch", saying Saudi Arabia fully cooperated in his deportation to India. "It was a very important catch. He was deported by Saudi Arabia," Union Home Secretary RK Singh told reporters here. Giving the first official reaction after Fasih's arrest by Delhi Police at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here, the...
04:50 PM, Oct 22, 2012
Bangalore: Bangalore Police on Monday said they would seek custody of Fasih Mohammed, a suspected Indian Mujahideen operative and key accused in the Delhi and Bangalore blasts, who was arrested after deportation from Saudi Arabia. "If Delhi Police has taken Fasih into custody, we will also be seeking his custody as he is involved in the Chinnaswamy Stadium blasts", Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) B Dayanand said. "We have not...
04:16 PM, Oct 22, 2012
Delhi: Suspected terrorist Fasih Mohammed allegedly involved in the Chinnaswamy Stadium blast has been arrested by the Delhi Police Special Cell. This came after Saudi Arabia deported the suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist to India. Fasih is accused of involvement in Bangalore and Delhi blast conspiracies. Fasih was detained in Saudi Arabia in June 2012. The 28-year-old's deportation from Saudi Arabia had earlier been delayed since India doesn't have an extradition...
11:52 AM, Oct 22, 2012
New Delhi: A special court here Friday fixed October 1 for framing of charges against an accused in the September 7, 2011 Delhi High Court blast accused, informed sources said. National Investigation Agency (NIA) Special Judge HS Sharma, during the in-camera proceedings, deferred the order on framing of charges against Wasim Akram Malik for October 1, the sources said. The court on September 4 found sufficient evidence against Malik under...
05:25 AM, Sep 22, 2012
New Delhi: India will now have to wait for Fasih Mohammed, accused of being involved in conspiracy of bomb blasts in Bangalore and Delhi, as Saudi Arabia has red-flagged his deportation from there saying they want to investigate his role in that country carefully before taking a call on New Delhi's request for handing him over. This was conveyed through diplomatic as well as security agency-to-agency meetings within days after...
03:29 PM, Sep 16, 2012
New Delhi: A special NIA court has framed charges against 2011 Delhi High Court blast accused Wasim Akram Malik under Sections 302, 120b, 307, 323, 325, 436, 440 and various sections of the UAP Act and Arms act. Nearly 15 people were killed in the blast that took place on September 7. The terror attack at the Delhi High Court was plotted with an aim to get the death sentence...
03:51 PM, Sep 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday directed a fresh trial of a terror accused whose conviction and sentencing had been set aside by a court bench on grounds that the accused was not provided with legal assistance but was split on the future course of action. Directing the de novo trial of Mohammad Hussain alias Zulfikar Ali, accused in 1997 bomb blast in Delhi, the court said: "The nature...
10:57 PM, Aug 31, 2012
New Delhi: Babbar Khalsa International leader Jagtar Singh and four others have pleaded guilty before a Delhi court in the 2005 Satyam and Liberty cinema halls blast case. The blast at the movie theatres in the national capital had taken place on May 22, 2005. The bombs were triggered by crude devices during the screening of controversial Hindi film 'Jo Bole So Nihaal'. As many as 60 people got injured...
05:42 PM, Aug 30, 2012
New Delhi: Nearly five months after an Israeli diplomat's car was bombed in New Delhi, the Delhi Police on Tuesday filed a chargesheet in a local court, indicting Indian journalist Syed Mohammad Kazmi of conspiring with foreign elements and others for the terror strike. The charge sheet filed before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav only contained the name of Kazmi, the sole person arrested in the case for the February...
06:51 PM, Jul 31, 2012
New Delhi: A key accused in the terror attack at the Delhi High Court reception is willing to turn approver and has sought the trial court's permission for it. Amir Abbas Dev, chargesheeted by the NIA for his alleged role in the bomb explosion at the high court's reception on September 7, 2011, has moved the court of District Judge (DJ) HS Sharma saying that he should be made an...
03:09 AM, Apr 19, 2012
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a chargesheet in the September 7, 2011 Delhi High Court blast case in a Delhi court. Seventeen people were killed and over 90 others were injured in the blast. The investigating agency had sought the court to issue the process of proclamation against Junaid, Chota Hafeez and Amir Kamal, who too are allegedly involved in the September 7, 2011 blast and...
03:35 PM, Mar 13, 2012
Jerusalem: Israel's prime minister has accused Iran of being behind a pair of car bombings against Israeli diplomatic targets in India and Georgia. Benjamin Netanyahu told a meeting of lawmakers from his Likud Party on Monday that he believed the Iranians were responsible for the attacks in New Delhi and Tbilisi. Two people were wounded in India and the bomb in Georgia was discovered before it went off. Netanyahu said...
07:01 PM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday gave a split verdict on conviction and death sentence awarded to Pakistani national Md Hussain in the 1997 Delhi blast case. The SC said that the accused was not cross examined. Hussain is accused in a 1997 Delhi blast which left four people dead and 24 injured. The blast took place in a DTC bus. The apex court also said 42 witnesses...
11:31 AM, Jan 11, 2012
Jammu: Stepping up efforts to track down three suspects in the Delhi High Court blast case, the National Investigating Agency on Tuesday, issued public notices about the accused along with their photographs and announced a Rs 10-lakh reward to anyone giving information about them. The agency published 'wanted' notices for Amir Ali Kamal alias Akram, Junaid Akram Malik alias Juni alias Umair and Shakir Hussain Sheikh alias Chota Hafiz alias...
03:16 PM, Oct 25, 2011
