Two decades of impunity: SCI set aside CBI probe against police officers accused of practising enforced disappearances | read this item
New Delhi, India (December 07, 2011): The Supreme Court of India today quashed a Punjab and Haryana High Court order directing the CBI to investigate the enforced disappearance of three innocent Sikhs, including son of a former IAS officer and the father and uncle of Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, in 1991.
Pre-Trial stay in Professor Bhullar's relatives' disappearance case: SCI may pronounce decision on 7 December | read this item
New Delhi, India (December 06, 2011): Supreme Court of India may pronounce it’s decision in case related to killing of father, uncle and friend of Professor Devender Pal Singh Bhullar. Senior Police officers, including IPS (Indian Police Services) officers are facing the charge. Professor Bhullar’s father, uncle and friend were abducted by Punjab Police in 1991 and were never heard upon thereafter, a CBI investigation, carried under the directions of Punjab and Haryana High Court in 2008, has revealed.
Judges are not infallible, but death penalty is final and fatal: Sushil Kumar | read this item
New Delhi, India (November 21, 2011): As the Supreme Court of India has been hearing the plea of Professor Devender Pal Singh Bhullar against death punishment awarded to him, a debate is started regarding various aspect of criminology and penology that retains capital punishment or death sentence as a form of punishment.
SCI held hearing on Professor Bhullar's case; Directed GOI to provide information of other review petitions | read this item
New Delhi (November 15, 2011): The Supreme Court of India has directed the Government of India on Tuesday, the 15th of November, 2011, to lay down, before it, details of all consitutional review petitions of death row convicts pending before the President of India.
SCI may hear Prof Bhullar's case on 15 November | read this item
New Delhi (November 15, 2011): The Supreme Court of India is expected to hear Professor Devender Singh Bhullar’s petition on 15 November, 2011 against execution of Death penalty. Professor Devender Pal Singh Bhullar had been sentenced to death on sole basis of defected confessional statement extracted in police custody by torture. He has already undergone [...]
Centre says delay granted lease of life to Bhullar; He has nothing complain about for delay | read this item
New Delhi (October 19, 2011): The case of Professor Devender Pal Singh Bhullar did not come for hearing in the Supreme Court of India today. The case was listed for hearing on number 28 but could not be taken up, due to shortage of time.
Bhullar's plea scheduled for hearing in Indian Supreme Court on 19 October | read this item
New Delhi ( October 18, 2011 ): The Supreme Court of India is scheduled to hear the clemency plea of Professor Devinderpal Singh Bhullar on Wednesday, 19th of October. Bhullar has been on death row for more than eight years, after he was convicted, in 2001, by a designated TADA court for criminal conspiracy in a 1993 bomb blast case. His appeal was finally dismissed by the Supreme Court of India in 2003. Later a review petition against the death sentence was filed with the President of India under Article 72. Home Ministry of India took more than eight years to decide tender its’ advice to the President of India in this case. Delay in execution is now base of clemency plea filed by Bhullar’s wife in the Supreme Court.
Badal, Captain not tabled Bhullar's resolution due to fear of loss of Hindu votes, says Dal Khalsa | read this item
Hoshiarpur (October 10,2011): Dal Khalsa slams both Akali Dal and Congress for utterly failing to bring the resolution in the recently concluded session of the assembly for commutation of death penalty to life imprisonment for Prof Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar.
The office bearers of the radical group who were in the city to attend the monthly meet here today lashed out at both Parkash Singh Badal and Captain Amarinder Singh for scuttling the resolution by indulging in shadow-boxing.
Dal Khalsa to Badal, Amarinder: Stop politicking, save Bhullar | read this item
Amritsar (October 01, 2011): Urging chief minister and former chief minister to stop politicking and save a life of a person who is on death row, the Dal Khalsa has asked for the assembly resolution on Oct 3 (Monday) for commutation of death penalty to life imprisonment for Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar.
US Congressman Mike Honda supports Professor Davinderpal Singh Bhullar | read this item
San Jose, California (September 11, 2011): US Congressman Mike Honda of the 15th Congressional District of California wrote a letter against capital punishment in the case of Professor DevinderPal Singh Bhullar in India.
