April 15, 2013

New Delhi, India (April 15, 2013): It is learnt that the Indian state has ordered special medical examination of Sikh political prisoner, Professor Davinderpal Singh Bhullar – who is under imminent threat of execution. Prof. Bhullar had been on death row for more than a decade. He has already spent eighteen years in prison.

New Delhi, India (April 15, 2013): According to certain media reports the Indian Cabinet was also divided in 2005 over clearing the execution of Professor Devender Pal Singh Bhullar. Previously Professor DPS Bhullar's death sentence was confirmed by Supreme Court (SC) of India in 2002 and 2003 in a divided judgment – with the presiding judge of three judges bench of SC acquitting Prof. Bhullar while two others upholding the death sentence.