Devinder Pal Bhullar: An explainer on how prisoners are considered for release
Ahead of the Punjab assembly elections, there is a growing clamour for the early release of Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, convicted in the 1993 Delhi bomb blast case. Even as the government is yet to announce a date for the next Sentence Review Board meeting, prison officials have confirmed that Bhullar’s name will be included among the list of prisoners, who are being considered for release, subject to the board’s approval. In a recent case, when the SRB repeatedly rejected the release of former Congress youth president, Sushil Kumar, convicted for his wife’s murder, in what became infamous as the Tandoor case, the Delhi High Court released Kumar. For example, the SRB had in the case of Manu Sharma, convicted of model Jessica Lal’s case murder in 1999, denied release at least thrice before finally releasing him in June 2020.
1993 Delhi blast convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar released on 21-days parole
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