Akal Takht Jathedar meets Bhullar

Jathedar of Akal Takht (highest Sikh temporal seat) Gyani Gurbachan Singh today visited the 1993 Delhi blast convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar and asked the medical team treating him to allow one of his relative to stay with him.
Bhullar was shifted to Swami Vivekananda Drug De-addiction Centre here due to severe depression from the Central Jail Amritsar.
Jathedar stayed with Bhullar for nearly seven minutes and asked the doctors and jail staff to allow one of the Bhullar's relative to stay with him round the clock due to his ill health.
Swami Vivekananda Drug De-addiction Centre is being run under the direct supervision of local Government Medical College as well as Government Guru Nanak Dev Hospital.

On Friday, Bhullar was shifted to the Central Jail here from Delhi's Tihar Jail amid tight police security.
Bhullar's wife Navneet Kaur had sought his shifting citing his poor health. Kaur, who had migrated to Canada with her in-laws in 1994, has her parental house at Ranjiv Avenue here.

Bhullar is said to be quite unwell, both physically and mentally. He is reportedly suffering from schizophrenia and has a disturbed state of mind.
Behind bars for the past two decades following his conviction in the case, Bhullar is undergoing life imprisonment after the Supreme Court commuted his death sentence. He was sentenced to death by a designated TADA court on August 25, 2001.

The Aam Aadmi Party-led Delhi government had cleared the request for Bhullar's transfer recently.