Amritsar April 23:
In pointing to Germany maintain a close tab on death row if convicted Devinderpal Singh Bhullar, German President Joachim Gauck spoke with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the issue to defend your case (Bhullar of) the same day as the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Bhullar April 12.
This has been revealed by the German Ambassador to Canada Werner Wnendt in response to the Canada-based World Sikh Organization (WSO), which - on the basis that the case was a Canadian connection, as well as for the wife Navneet Bhullar Kaur was Canadian citizen - took the case of Bhullar with Wnendt seek the intervention of Germany to obtain the execution of Bhullar stopped.
"Germany has followed the case closely and Prof. Bhullar India has asked him repeatedly relief in death penalty on humanitarian grounds.'s April 12, 2013, the same day the Supreme Court of India has Prof denied relief. Bhullar of the death penalty, the Federal President Joachim Gauck, spoke with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in order to defend its case, "Wnendt has said in his response to OSM.
"The government of the Federal Republic of Germany is strongly opposed to the death penalty and has encouraged the government of the Republic of India on numerous occasions to return to the moratorium on the death penalty," he said. Wnendt also said: "Germany will continue to talk with India on the highest level in this case (Bhullar)."
The in the Khalistan Liberation Force terrorist Bhullar term, while trying to escape to Canada via Germany to be with his wife, married in 1991, was captured at the Frankfurt airport on a false passport in December 1994. Applied for asylum in Germany. But turning down your request, Germany deported to India in January 1995.
However, in October 1997, a court in Frankfurt called the deportation illegal under German law, which prohibits the deportation of a person facing the death penalty in the receiving country. After the rejection of the clemency petition of Bhullar by President Pratibha Patil, in 2011, the then President of Germany, apparently, in a communication to Patil, regretted deport Bhullar to India.