{"id":116,"date":"2014-03-31T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/bhullars-death-sentence-commuted-to-life-imprisonment\/"},"modified":"2014-03-31T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T16:31:00","slug":"bhullars-death-sentence-commuted-to-life-imprisonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Bhullar&#8217;s death sentence commuted to life imprisonment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><b style=\"color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Pro-freedom camp expresses resentment<\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><b><span style=\"color: red;\">Srinagar:<\/span><\/b> Expressing strong resentment over the Supreme Court judgement that commuted the death sentence of 1993 Delhi blasts convict Devenderpal Singh Bhullar to life imprisonment on the grounds of inordinate delay in deciding his mercy petition and that he suffered from Schizophrenia, Kashmir\u2019s pro-freedom leadership&nbsp;Monday&nbsp;stated that the judgement vindicates that New Delhi was in hurry to hang Guru.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u201cThis is a clear double standard- this has exposed India\u2019s judicial system and the tall claims of justice and fair play. The reality is that two yard sticks are being adopted when a Kashmir and that too a Muslim is concerned,\u201d said Hurriyat Conference (M) Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Mirwaiz added that the earlier the death sentence of the assassins of Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was commuted into life imprisonment and now 993 terror convict Devenderpal Singh Bhullar has been sentenced for life imprisonment. \u201cThis can be asked that why then Afzal Guru was hanged.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Chairman Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Mohammad Yasin Malik told KNS over phone that the double standards have exposed \u2018bias\u2019 of Judiciary against the people of Kashmir. \u201cEven the court judgment stated that there was no direct involvement of Guru in parliament attack but to satisfy the collective conscience of India, he was hanged mercilessly at Tihar.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The Hurriyat Conference (G) led by Syed Ali Geelani remarked that the stand of the pro-freedom camp has been vindicated the Supreme Court itself. \u201cWe have been saying time and again that people of Kashmir cannot expect justice from India\u2019s judicial system- now that has been proved and world must know how much we are being tormented at large.\u201d&nbsp;(KNS)<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-freedom camp expresses resentment Srinagar: Expressing strong resentment over the Supreme Court judgement that commuted the death sentence of 1993 Delhi blasts convict Devenderpal Singh Bhullar to life imprisonment on the grounds of inordinate delay in deciding his mercy petition and that he suffered from Schizophrenia, Kashmir\u2019s pro-freedom leadership&nbsp;Monday&nbsp;stated that the judgement vindicates that New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}