Supreme Court expressed concern over little empathy for the victims of violent attacks, starvation deaths, farmers suicide and securitymen getting killed in terror acts.
Raising brows at the advocates of human rights for the law breakers, the Supreme Court expressed concern over little empathy for the victims of violent attacks, starvation deaths, farmers suicide and securitymen getting killed in terror acts.
A bench of justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhya on Wednesday felt human rights violation cannot be the prerogative of a few privileged as it was as much available to other deprived sections of the society and victims of violence.
While dealing with the death convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar’s plea that he couldn’t be executed now as there was undue delay of eight years in disposing of his mercy plea by the president, the court remarked “What about the psyche of the victims of violence?
So many security people gave up their lives in defending Parliament’’. “Those brave people have been forgotten in a day’’, judges said refraining from entering into a political debate on dilly-dallying with the execution of Parliament attack death convict Afzal Guru.
Bhullar was sentenced to death by a TADA court on August 25, 2001 in the 1993 bomb blast in Delhi targeting the cavalcade of then Youth Congress president Maninderjit Singh Bitta who escaped with serious injuries though nine security personnel were killed.
On March 26, 2002, the apex court dismissed Bhullar’s appeal against the death sentence. His review petition was also dismissed on December 17, 2002.
Bhullar then moved a ‘curative petition’ before the SC. It was also dismissed on March 12, 2003. Bhullar, meanwhile, filed a mercy petition before the President on January 14, 2003.
After a lapse of lapse of over eight years, President Pratibha Patil dismissed his mercy plea on May 25 this year. Referring to the Bullar’s case, judges said in this case too, nine people were killed and 29 injured. “Has any one found out about their feelings? What about their human rights”? an anguished bench asked Bhullar’s counsel K T S Tulsi.
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