Former militant Davinderpal Bhullar in mental asylum

Confirming the development,Harvinder Singh Sarna,member,Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee,said ,“Neither I nor my brother Paramjit Singh Sarna have met Bhullar but our managers who go to give him aid each month have told us that Bhullar had complained of deep depression. The jail officials,too,submitted a report confirming the depression and also stated that Bhullar was showing suicidal tendencies. Thus he has been shifted to a government-run mental hospital for medical aid.” The committee has been providing aid to Bhullar all these years.

Navneet Kaur Bhullar,wife of Davinderpal Singh Bhullar,in an earlier interview with The Indian Express too had stated that her husband “is very frustrated,under depression and even suffers from many illnesses.” Navneet,in October last year,had appealed to the Centre to decide her husband’s fate one way or the other.

Bhullar had fled to Germany in 1994 from where he was deported a year later. Post his sentence,Bhullar had appealed against the death sentence in December 2001,but the appeal was rejected by a three-member bench of the Supreme Court. A review petition was filed in the Supreme Court in December 2002,questioning the legitimacy of the rejection of Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar’s appeal. The review petition was heard by the same three judges,who upheld their original decision.