Death Penalty

UK: Protest, March and Lobby of MPs to help save an innocent Professor from Death in India

London, United Kingdom (April 14, 2013): Thousands of Sikhs from across the UK are expected to protest and lay siege outside the High Commission of India on Monday 15 April between 12 noon and 2pm following the decision by the Supreme Court of India on Friday 12 April that Professor Davinderpal Singh Bhullar should be put to death by hanging.

Medical Examination ordered – Prof. Bhullar may be hanged in secrecy

New Delhi, India (April 15, 2013): It is learnt that the Indian state has ordered special medical examination of Sikh political prisoner, Professor Davinderpal Singh Bhullar – who is under imminent threat of execution. Prof. Bhullar had been on death row for more than a decade. He has already spent eighteen years in prison.

Prof. Bhullar’s Case : Germany had appealed to India “to ensure that death penalty was not carried out”

New Delhi, India (April 15, 2013): According to certain media reports, in a top level contact with India, the German government had informed it would not have deported death row convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar from Frankfurt in 1995, had it known that he would be punished with the death penalty.

India’s Home Ministry and MEA were divided over Bhullar’s clearing execution of Prof. Bhullar

New Delhi, India (April 15, 2013): According to certain media reports the Indian Cabinet was also divided in 2005 over clearing the execution of Professor Devender Pal Singh Bhullar. Previously Professor DPS Bhullar's death sentence was confirmed by Supreme Court (SC) of India in 2002 and 2003 in a divided judgment – with the presiding judge of three judges bench of SC acquitting Prof. Bhullar while two others upholding the death sentence.

PCI chairman Justice Markandey Katju writes to President for Prof. Bhullar

New Delhi, India (April 15, 2013): It is learnt that the Press Council of India (PCI) chairperson Justice Markandey Katju has written to President Pranab Mukherjee seeking pardon for Professor Devender Pal Singh Bhullar whose execution was cleared by Supreme Court of India on April 12 despite substantial and procedural legal flaws.

Prof. Bhullar’s father, uncle and friend were killed in police custody; Cops enjoyed blind impunity

Ludhiana, Punjab (April 14, 2013): According to a news report published at the website of Times of India (TOI): “[t]he custodial disappearance of Devinderpal Singh Bhullar's father and uncle is believed to have been a turning point in his life”.

Badal Dal Core Committee held emergency meeting over SC verdict in Bhullar’s Case; Badals to Meet Indian PM, Home Minister & President

Chandigarh/ Punjab (April 13, 2013) As per media reports a meeting of the Core Committee of the Shiromani Akali Dal described as the recent verdict of Supreme Court of India, upholding the death sentence of Professor Devender Pal Singh Bhullar as “deeply painful, unfortunate and worrying”.

German Court had ruled that 1995 deportation order of Prof. Bhullar was “unlawful”, as he feared threat of Torture & death penalty in India

Ludhiana, Punjab (April 13, 2013): According to a news report by Times of India (TOI): "[t]wo years after Devinderpal Singh Bhullar was deported from Germany, an administrative court in Frankfurt had held that the 1995 deportation order was "unlawful" as he faced threat of torture and death penalty in India for the 1993 bomb attack in New Delhi that killed nine people and injured many others".

Judgement/Decision of Supreme Court India upholding death sentence to Prof. Bhullar (dt. 12/04/2013)

Judgement of Supreme Court of India (dt. April 12, 2013) upholding death sentence of Sikh political prisoner Professor Devender Pal Singh Bhullar.

Sikh bodies call emergency meeting at Jalandhar on April 14 in wake go ahead to Prof. Bhullar’s execution

Ludhiana, Punjab (April 12, 2013): In wake of imminent threat of execution of Professor Devender Pal Singh Bhullar by Indian state, the Sikh organizations of Punjab have called an urgent meeting on April 14, 2013.

Prof. Bhullar’s execution depends on health condition: Tihar Jail Official; Bhullar needs more treatment, says Doctor

New Delhi, India (April 12, 2013): According to media reports Sunil Gupta, Tihar Central Jail spokesperson has said that Prof. Devender Pal Singh Bhullar, cannot be hanged till he is declared fit.

Bitter reaction from Sikh bodies over SC decision on Prof. Bhullar’s case; It’s a Judicial murder: SGPC

Avtar Singh Makkar said “[t]his is judicial murder”. “I reiterate that there are two sets of laws, a separate one for minorities. On one side death penalty is given to Bhullar on the basis of merely his confessional statement that could be given by anyone under duress and there are no witnesses who give statement against Bhullar, on the other side seven death sentences of a butcher like Kishori Lal, who murdered more than 30 persons with knife, are commuted” said SGPC Chief.

No Justice of for Sikhs in India – Professor DPS Bhullar faces imminent threat of execution

Professor Devender Pal Singh Bhullar is a victim of state sponsored terrorism whose family members were subjected to enforced disappearances and custodial torture, and were secretly killed and disposed off, while the culprit police officers are enjoying full impunity and high ranks in Punjab police. The case of Prof. Bhullar symbolizes the plight of Sikhs in India.

India has dual standards of law; Death for Bhullar while 1984 culprits roaming free: AISSF

Chandigarh/ Punjab (April 12, 2013): All India Sikh Students Federation (AISSF) will approach Government of Germany, that deported Professor Devender Pal Singh Bhullar to India where he was facing death sentence, demanding that sentencing Prof. Bhullar to death will be against norms of International Law, as it prohibits deporting an individual to a country which practices death penalty.

Upholding Professor Bhullar’s hanging by SCI, shocking and disturbing: Dal Khalsa

Amritsar (April 12, 2013): In a statement sent to Sikh Siyasat News (SSN) the Dal Khalsa spokesperson Kanwar Pal Singh has termed the dismissal of petition of Prof Devinderpal Singh Bhullar a death row convict, as shocking and disturbing for people of Punjab in general and Sikh community in particular.

Indian Supreme Court confirms death for Sikh political prisoner Prof Bhullar

New Delhi, India (April 12, 2013): Indian Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence to Sikh Political prisoner Professor Devender Pal Singh Bhullar.

Supreme Court of India to pronounce decision on Prof. Bhullar’s case today

New Delhi, India (April 12, 2013): It is learnt that the Supreme Court of India may pronounce decision on a petition moved by wife of Sikh political prisoner Prof. Devender Pal Singh Bhullar, who is on death row in India for a decade.

German Sikhs to raise the case of Prof. Bhullar with Germany and issue of ban on Sadda Haq with Indian PM

London, United Kingdom (April 08, 2013): The Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be visiting Germany on Wednesday for a 3-day visit. He will hold talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin from Wednesday. The main purpose of his visit is to get support for the India-European Union Foreign Trade Agreement (FTA).

Kesri Lehar held “Save a Life Vaisakhi Vigil” in London against death penalty in India

London, United Kingdom (April 08, 2013): Kesri Lehar, a campaign by people of cross ethnic backgrounds, held the successful, 'Save a Life Vaisakhi Vigil' in observance of 'The Rejections of the Mercy Pleas' by Pranab Mukherjee, President of India, outside the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London, on 6th April, 2013.

Suspicions surrounds Rajoana’s execution as Indian President reportedly decides all pending death review petitions

New Delhi/ Patiala, India/Punjab (April 04, 2013): According to certain media reports the President of India has cleared all the cases of constitutional review petitions against death sentences awarded to various convicts by Indian courts. As the reports did not carry any details as regards the persons whose petitions have been disposed off by the President of India, there is a lot of confusion in this matter.

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