3 Indians, on death row in Sharjah, were released and returned home here on Tuesday after a Dubai-based NGO paid Rs1.8 million in blood money to save them.
The 3 men were sentenced to death in Sharjah for bootlegging and murder of a fellow Indian. The Dubai-based NGO Sarbat Da Bhala paid the blood money to the victim’s family, S.P. Singh Oberoi, founder of the NGO, told IANS on Tuesday.
The Sharjah court accepted the 3 death row prisoners’ plea to give money to the victim’s family and released them, he said. “We have paid Rs1.8 million as blood money. I shelled out Rs1.2 million from my own pocket and the rest of the amount was arranged by the accused men’s families. It was not at all easy to convince the other party to take the blood money,” he said. The 3 young men are Kashmiri Lal, resident of Bhar Singh Pura village in Nawanshahr district, Trilochan Singh and Pradeep Kumar of Sakroli and Fatehgarh Naira villages (both in Hoshairpur district) respectively.
The 3 men were involved in bootlegging, which led to the murder of a fellow Indian, Bikram Jeet Singh, resident of Dayalgarh village in Gurdaspur district, in October 2008. Thereafter, they were arrested and were sentenced to death in 2009 in Sharjah.
Oberoi, a Dubai-based businessman, is involved in many other humanitarian activities in Punjab. So far, he has also sponsored over 6,000 marriages of under-privileged youths here.
Source: Khaleej Times, May 31, 2011
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