New Delhi, May 10 (ANI): Almost a month after the Supreme Court dismissed convicted Khalistani terrorist Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar's plea that his death sentence be commuted to life imprisonment, German President Joachim Gauck and Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle have written to their Indian counterparts seeking clemency for him.
"Germany is opposing death penalty, we believe it does not serve justice," German envoy Michael Steiner told media here.
Bhullar's family members, including wife, Navneet Kaur, met the German envoy here along with Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Manjeet Singh.
"Their (Germany's) foreign minister has written a letter to our foreign minister, Salman Khurshid, that Germany government seeks the commutation of Bhullar's death penalty into life imprisonment," Singh told media.
Bhullar was sentenced to death in 2001 for plotting terror attacks on Punjab SSP Sumedh Singh Saini and M.S. Bitta in 1993, leading to several deaths in New Delhi.
The apex court had on 26 March, 2002, dismissed Bhullar's appeal against the death sentence awarded by trial court and endorsed by the Delhi High Court.
He had filed a review petition, which was also dismissed on 17 December, 2002. Bhullar had then moved a curative petition, which too had been rejected, by the apex court on March 12, 2003.
Bhullar had filed a mercy petition before the President on 14 January, 2003. The President, however, rejected his mercy petition on May 25 last year, clearing the decks for his execution. (ANI)
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