1993 Delhi bomb blast: Decision on release of Davinder Pal Bhullar deferred
New Delhi, March 2: The Sentence Review Board (SRB), headed by Delhi Home Minister Satyendar Jain, on Wednesday deferred its decision on the release of Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar, a 1993 Delhi bomb blast case convict currently lodged in the Amritsar jail.
The matter had been put off till the next meeting of the Sentence Review Board, said a Delhi government official.
Also read | Ukraine-Russia war: Help yet to reach 600 Indian students stranded in Sumy university
The demand by Sikh groups for Davinder Pal Singh's release had gained ground ahead of the Assembly elections in Punjab. The seven-member board comprises the Director General of the Tihar prison, Secretaries of Home and Law Departments and director of Social Welfare Department of the Delhi government, a District Judge and a senior Delhi Police official.
Bhullar was convicted in connection with the killing of nine persons and leaving 31 injured in a bomb blast in 1993 in Delhi. Among those who survived the attack is former Youth Congress chief MS Bitta.
Bhullar was sentenced to death by a designated TADA court on August 25, 2001.
He is undergoing life imprisonment after the Supreme Court commuted his death sentence.
He was shifted to the Amritsar Central Jail from Delhi’s Tihar Jail on health grounds, in June 2015.
Also read | Operation Ganga: All arrangements in place for travel of evacuated Indians from Ukraine, says Union Minister Jitendra Singh
Former Punjab Chief Minister and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) patriarch Parkash Singh Badal had recently sought the immediate release of Bhullar in the “larger interest of consolidating peace and communal harmony” in Punjab. He had accused the ruling Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi of obstructing his release.
-PTC News
