SC to hear Bhullar's plea for commenting death to life sentence

January 28, 2014 11:11

The Supreme Court will hear Khalistani militant and 1993 Delhi bomb blast convict Devender Pal Singh Bhullar's plea seeking commutation of his death penalty to life term.

Bhullar through his lawyer, senior counsel KTS Tulsi, filed a plea to file an amendment application and sought revision of the earlier sentence on the grounds that it was contrary to the recommendations of the Law Commission that death penalty cases should be heard only by a Constitution bench, also because the execution was delayed for eight years.

Another plea made by Bhullar was that his original death sentence was awarded by a 2:1 split verdict which cannot be relied upon as "there was an element of doubt" among the judges in awarding the capital punishment.

Bhullar was sentenced to death by a designated TADA court on August 25, 2001, for his role in the September 10, 1993, blast in Delhi targeting the cavalcade of car carrying then All India Youth Congress president MS Bitta, who escaped with serious injuries, though nine security personnel were killed.

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