New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission on Wednesday "strongly" recommended to the government to allow close relatives of Khalistani terrorist Devender Pal Singh Bhullar, who is on the death row, to meet him. Bhullar, whose plea for commutation of death sentence to life imprisonment for his involvement in the 1993 bomb blast outside Youth Congress office in New Delhi was rejected by the Supreme Court, is presently under treatment for depression at IBHAAS.
The NHRC recommendation came after a delegation and Bhullar's wife Navneet Kaur met Chairperson Justice KG Balakrishnan and other members on the issue of his execution. "The Commission has strongly recommended that the close relatives of the prisoner be given an opportunity to meet him. The Commission's recommendations have been sent to the Union Home Ministry," a statement said.
The NHRC sources said leaders of Akali Dal along with the wife had sought an appointment with the Chairperson, who later decided that the Full Commission will give an audience to the delegation. Sources also said the NHRC recommendation came against the backdrop of complaints that Parliament attack case convict Afzal Guru was executed without allowing his family members to meet him for a last time.
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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...
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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...
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