New Delhi: The Supreme Court is expected to hear a petition challenging the death penalty given to militant Devender Pal Singh Bhullar. His mercy plea was rejected last year after he was given death penalty in a 1993 car bombing case. The Khalistani militant had been sentenced to death for triggering the 1993 Delhi car bomb attack that killed 12 people. He had filed a mercy petition before President Pratibha...
07:41 AM, Feb 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear death row convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar's plea to convert his sentence into a life term. The Khalistani militant who had been sentenced to death for triggering the 1993 Delhi car bomb attack that killed 12 people, had filed a mercy petition before the President in January. President Pratibha Patil had rejected the mercy petition in May 2011. Bhullar's counsel had...
08:46 AM, Nov 09, 2011
New Delhi: The Khalistan Tiger Force on Monday claimed responsibility for the Ambala RDX Haul, saying that the explosive were sent to terminate Congress leader Sajjan Kumar. Sajjan Kumar is a key accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Earlier on Monday, the Khalistan Tiger Force has issued a letter to the media saying that the RDX haul was the group's doing. The letter also claims that the KTF does not...
12:46 PM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: The foiled terror plot in Ambala which was meant to target Delhi shows once again how the Lashkar-e-Toiba is trying to revive the Sikh militancy in Punjab by forging a nexus with terrorist groups like the Babbar Khalsa. October 31 will mark 25 years of the assassination of former prime minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards and today the Khalistan movement may have died down in India,...
03:58 PM, Oct 13, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear Devendar Pal Singh Bhullar's amended plea for mercy on Wednesday. The Khalistani militant was sentenced to death for masterminding the 1993 Delhi car bomb attack that killed 12 people. His counsel has allowed to argue that the death penalty should only be handed out by a constitution bench and not if there is a split verdict. The apex court had earlier dismissed Bhullar's...
07:42 AM, Sep 28, 2011
New Delhi: Pleading that a mentally imbalanced person should not be executed, the wife of terrorist Devender Pal Singh Bhullar has urged the Supreme Court to quash his death penalty and commute it to life term. In a fresh writ petition filed by senior counsel K T S Tulsi, the convict's wife Navaneet Kaur submitted that carrying out the death penalty would amount to 'cruelty' and would be 'inhuman' and...
10:27 AM, Jun 26, 2011
Patiala: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday said that the recent book published by Congress party vindicated Akali Dal's stand that leaders of the ruling party at the Centre was responsible for the 1980s crisis in the state. He, however, refused to comment on the allegation that militant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwala was planted by former President Gyani Zail Singh and Congress general secretary Sanjay Gandhi as mentioned in...
05:53 PM, Jun 12, 2011
Chandigarh: All India Anti-Terrorist Front Chairman MS Bitta on Monday said political parties were indulging in votebank politics over rejection of mercy plea of death row convict and Khalistan militant Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar even as SGPC decided to file a review petition against capital punishment for Bhullar. "It is unfortunate that parties are indulging in votebank politics over such a sensitive issue. It is time that people of this...
06:41 PM, May 30, 2011
New Delhi: Former Punjab DGP KPS Gill has hit out at attempts to politicise the mercy plea of Khalistani terrorist Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar ahead of elections in the Punjab. Gill said, "There should be no clemency for Bhullar and that politics is being played over it as elections are due in Punjab." Gill also debunked the Akali Dal's claim that saving Bhullar from the death row would remove acrimony ...
01:38 PM, May 30, 2011
New Delhi: Former Punjab DGP KPS Gill has hit out at attempts to politicise the mercy plea of Khalistani terrorist Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar ahead of elections in the Punjab. Gill said, "There should be no clemency for Bhullar and that politics is being played over it as elections are due in Punjab." Gill also debunked the Akali Dal's claim that saving Bhullar from the death row would remove acrimony...
01:38 PM, May 30, 2011
New Delhi: The Opposition Congress in Punjab has joined the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal to seek a pardon for Khalistani terrorist Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar after President Pratibha Patil rejected his mercy petition earlier this week. After Afzal Guru yet another man's death verdict is embroiled in the game of political one-upmanship. BJP's ally in Punjab Shiromani Akali Dal sought "direct and immediate intervention of the Prime Minister to save...
11:40 AM, May 29, 2011
New Delhi: After seven years, the go-ahead has been given for execution of two murder convicts that could start the process of clearing the long list of death row convicts, including Afzal Guru and Rajiv Gandhi assassination convicts, awaiting punishment. President Pratibha Patil has rejected the mercy petitions of Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar of Punjab and Mahendra Nath Das of Assam following the recommendations from the Union Home Ministry, sources...
08:34 PM, May 26, 2011
Manmohan Singh assuaged the Sikhs in Canada that his government was trying to heal the wounds of the riots. ...
07:44 AM, Jun 29, 2010
![Canada warns Khalistani groups against violence]( "Canada warns Khalistani groups against violence")
The warning comes after last week's threats to Indo-Canadian leader Ujjal Dosanjh by radical Sikh groups. ...
08:46 AM, Apr 27, 2010
The duo was arrested from Nabha town near Patiala district. ...
03:46 PM, Feb 21, 2010
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