GRAVE INJUSTICE
NEW DELHI - The German Ambassador to India, Michael Steiner has appealed to the Indian government 'not to implement' the death penalty and thus reprieve the capital punishment awarded to Devender Singh Bhullar.
Bhullar, who was extradited from Germany, is facing the gallows for the 1993 militant attacks on a top police officer and also a political leader, claiming several lives and injuring many others.
The Supreme Court on April 12th, 2013 rejected the clemency petition of Devinderpal Singh Bhullar, and has condemned him to death. To a poser on these developments, Steiner said that his country's President had requested Indian government to do away with the death penalty.
Charges against Bhai Devender Singh Bhullar were framed by Indian Authorities under the controversial and now defunct TADA laws of the 1980s and 1990s for an alleged attack on Youth Congress leader Maninder Bitta on September 11, 1993.
Professor Bhullar, a graduate in electrical engineering from Guru Nanak Engineering College, Ludhiana, served as professor in different technical colleges of Punjab. Like many Sikh youth facing harassment from the Punjab Police, he had managed to escape to Germany in December, 1994, when his father disappeared while in the police custody.
His application for political asylum was rejected in 1995 and he was deported to India. Though the immigration authorities sent him to India, a German court overruled the decision of the lower court in connection with declining political asylum to him when he came back to India. He has been currently incarcerated in the high security Tihar Jail.
Dear Mr Michael Steiner , The German Ambassador to India.....GOD bless you.
It is very nice that you have appealed to GOVT of INDIA to stop sending Dr D Singh Bhullar to gallows. 30 million people of SIKHS are supporting to save S D S Bhullar.
Since your appeal is meaningless before Govt of INDIA
& Chancellor of Germany feels hurt since its relations with INDIA are meaningless.
With GOD'S LOVE..............LOVE