Lawyers For Human Rights International

• To, The Hon’ble President of India
• The Hon’ble Home Minister of India.

Devender Pal Singh Bhullar was sentenced to DEATH by the designated court of Delhi on 25th Aug 2001 and is at present 46 years. After completing his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Guru Nanak engineering College Ludhiana, in 1990, Bhullar started teaching in the same college and taught for more than a year. He belonged to a well settled educated family and his father was Section Officer in Punjab Audit Department and his mother was working as Supervisor in Rural Development Department of Punjab.

Its travesty of justice that the 6 Sikhs, who have been accused of killing Swami Ramanand in Vienna, Austria are till date without effective defense. Another aspect which is also very alarming that the Vienna police has failed to identify the people who made the murderous assault on these youth and is only trying to charge these 6 people and not anyone from the side of the followers of Swami Ramanand.

We, the citizens of the Republic of India, express our deep concern and sorrow at the confirmation of capital punishment upon Prof. Devender Pal Singh Bhullar and subsequent dismissal of his review petition by the Supreme Court vide the judgment dated 22.3.2002 and 19.12.2002, by a three judge bench of the Supreme Court of India, comprising, Mr.Justice M.B.Shah, Mr.Justice B.N. Aggarwal and Justice Arijit Pasayat in a case under

Our organisation has joined hands with various human rights organisations of India who are propagating the abolition of death penalty from Indian Laws. Our organisation is a member of National Campaign to Abolish Death Penalty, which has its Head Office at Chennai A team of members of our organisation had participated in the first meeting of the Campaign held in New Delhi in 2000. Navkiran Singh, General Secretary of our organisation read a paper seeking abolition of death penalty from the statutes which was widely appreciated.