Prof. Bhullar is innocent!
All this was happening because Central government (Congress) controlled the Punjab state government (led by Beant 'Singh' - Congress Leader, then Chief Minister of Punjab) had ordered Beant to eradicate any Sikh whom he come across in Punjab. Beant gave full authority to KP Gill and Sumedh Saini and told them that government will give huge rewards if they will kill any Sikh with flowing beard and gatra kirpan. In the hunger of rewards they went out and did a Genocide for full 15 years.
Anyways, coming back to Prof. Bhullar, he was into his 3rd month of marriage and happily living with his family. He was Mechanical engineering Prof in Ludhiana’s Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College. He came across a very disturbing trend in his class as well as in college i.e. close to 40 students went missing from college, inside in his heart he knew that some of them would have been killed by Police who tagged them as Khaarkoo and few of them would be languishing in jails and brutally tortured by police officials. His only mistake was that he came forward and raised his voice for the missing students.
Just because he raised his voice against the atrocities and demanded the justification from police about missing students, Police party was sent to pick him up from home. Prof was not there at that time, so his father and maternal uncle was picked. Later he realized that his father and uncle has been killed by Punjab Police in a brutal manner (while torturing). He also got to know that his Engineering friend Balwant Singh Multani was also picked up by Police from Chandigarh, later he was killed by police in torture room.
Considering all these factors, Prof. Bhullar went underground for next couple of years and was searched by police parties across Punjab. Police was not able to get hold of Prof. Bhullar. Then came year 1993, MS Bitta (then Youth Congress Head) party was hit by bomb, 9 people died and Bitta was injured badly. Punjab Police didn't delay and tagged Prof. Bhullar with this bomb blast case. In 1994 Prof. Bhullar and his wife Navneet decided to move to Canade to lead a peacful life but at Frankfurt Prof. Bhullar was caught and later in 1995 he was deported back to India.
As soon as Prof. Bhullar reached India, he was caught and TADA was applied on him and was given death sentence. Now, what was the proof against Prof. Bhullar
1) 109 witnesses were examined and none of them could tell if Prof. Bhullar was the person who triggered the bomb. Delhi police, CBI and Punjab police failed miserably over here
2) During torture Police managed to get the signatures of Prof Bhullar on Confession statement. God, police and Prof. Bhullar knows under what circumstances he signed the statement. There is no proof that if that signature on statement is of Prof. Bhullar. All they have his signature on confession statement
These are the 2 points which I would like to put forth for his innocence and would like to ask everybody on this earth that can you hang someone based on this proof.
Well Supreme Court bench sat in year 2002, consisting of 3 judges (Justice M. B. Shah, Arijit Pasyat, and J Aggarwal). Justice M.B. Shah mentioned that Prof. Bhullar cannot be convicted on the basis of a “dubious confession”, let alone given a death sentence, and recommended that he be acquitted.
But Shah was overruled by the other two judges, who awarded the death penalty despite Shah’s different opinion on the case. In the history of Democracy it is the first case in the world in which a death sentence has been given despite a difference of opinion among the judges. Even room for 1% doubt is sufficient to deny death penalty but over here 33% doubt is there and still Prof. Bhullar was given death penalty.
Then his mercy plea went to President Pratibha Patil who was partner in crime during 1984 Sikh Genocide. She deployed her 'chamchas' during 1984 to kill Sikhs in her constituency. What can you expect from her, she also rejected the plea of Prof. Bhullar. All in all, this is a judicial error which government should have rectified and Home Minister along with dumb Mrs. Patil should have considered while rejecting the plea.
On the other hand we have Kishori Lal 'Butcher of Trilokpuri' who killed more than 40 Sikh women and children during 1984 Sikh Genocide. He has been given death sentence for 7 cases but still Delhi Lieutenant-Governor (L-G) Tejendra Khanna wants to set Kishori lal free and want him to roam again on the streets of Delhi. Shame on such dubious system, Indian democracy doesn't have an inch of shame when they took such decision. Why judiciary, government, local public is hell bent on hanging Prof. Bhullar and OK if Kishori Lal is set free.
Kishori Lal is not the only case, there is case of Dara Singh, Maya Kodnani, Jagdish Tytler, Sajjan Kumar, Kamal Nath....list goes on. No action can be taken on them because they are protected by government.
I have only one word for all this situation and that is SHAME!
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