Sikhs join hands on Bhullar’s clemency

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Sikhs join hands on Bhullar’s clemencyTribune News Service
New Delhi, March 29In a rare show of solidarity cutting across party lines, all Sikh groups will march up to Parliament on Sunday to press for clemency to Prof Devinderpal Singh Bhullar, who has been sentenced to death by the Supreme Court, for his involvement in the Indian Youth Congress bomb blast case.
The Prof Devinderpal Singh Bhullar Defence Committee, the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) and Amritsar’s Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) will jointly march and submit a petition to the President for commuting the sentence to life imprisonment, the general secretary of the SHSAD, Prof Prem Singh Chandumajra, said here today.
Parliamentarians from Canada, Germany and Britain have also appealed to the President for commuting the sentence, the committee said.
“Now that the six-member Bench of the Supreme Court has dismissed the curative petition of Bhullar in the IYC bomb blast case, the President, Mr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, should reject the clemency petition, who has been convicted by the highest court in the country,” the President of the All-India Anti Terrorist Front, Mr M.S. Bitta, said. The former IYC President was injured in the blast.
The committee said there was a great resentment in the Sikh community that not a single perpetrator of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots had been punished and even the sentence of Kishori, convicted for the riots in three cases, was commuted to life by the apex court.