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Release Prof. Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar:
Delhi Tamil Students Union 09 June, 2011 We strongly condemn President Pratiba Patil's rejection of the mercy petition of Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar. Prof. Bhullar was sentenced to death by a trial court in Delhi on 25th August 2001 under the infamous draconian Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (TADA) act, which has been consistently used as a tool of the Indian state and its ruling parties to harass activists who are working for the people, oppressed sections and minorities. Even after the act has been scrapped, verdicts passed under its undemocratic aegis are still being upheld. The very process of the arrest, detention and conviction of
Prof. Bhullar is murky. An assassination attempt on the SSP of Chandigarh, one
Sumedh Saini on August 1991, was alleged by the police to have been committed by
Bhullar and his friends. Following this, Bhullar's father and his maternal uncle
were arrested without following legal procedures, tortured and killed. In a
similar manner, Balwant Singh Multani, a friend of Bhullar, was also killed in
police custody. The police were gunning for the suspect Bhullar and were trying
to pin down further charges on him. He was consequently blamed for another
incident which happened in Delhi, an attempt on the life of a Youth Congress
leader on September 1993. All of this needs to be seen in the light of the witch
hunting of Sikh activists that happened in the period of the brutal police
repression that sought to crush the Khalistan movement and voices of democracy
in Punjab in the 80's and 90's. Bhullar was one of the many innocent casualties
of state brutality. |
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