Sister seeks release of jailed brother

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Sister seeks release of jailed brother

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040120/...0/punjab1.htm#4

Chandigarh, January 19

Dr Davinder Kaur, a leading gynaecologist of Ludhiana and sister of Ranjit Singh Gill, currently undergoing life imprisonment for owing conviction in the Lalit Maken case in Delhi’s Tihar Jail, has appealed to all human rights bodies and political leaders to take up her brother’s case and secure his release since he has spent almost half his life under detention until now.

“Although the Akalis mobilised hundreds of supporters to secure the release of Mr Parkash Singh Badal and his son, Mr Sukhbir Badal, who were sent to judicial custody by a Ropar court in a corruption case, no one barring a few like Mr Simranjit Singh Mann, has bothered to inquire about my brother who is behind bars in Tihar Jail. It seems youngsters like him have been left to their fate,” Dr Davinder Kaur said in a statement issued here today.

“No Akali leader worth his salt has ever bothered about the plight of youngsters like Ranjit. He has already spent 17 years behind bars, including 14 years in American jails. A life convict is usually free after 14 years but with no one to support his cause, Ranjit is languishing in jail and his imprisonment has already exceeded the life term,” she said while appealing to the Delhi Chief Minister, Mrs Sheila Dixit, to review Ranjit’s case sympathetically at the remission committee meeting especially because of their mother’s grave illness.

Incidentally, Ranjit Singh Gi

ll’s case is a classic example of an impressionable mind being led astray under unfortunate circumstances. Born on June 22,1961, Ranjit now 43, has spent more than 17 years behind bars. Out of these almost a decade and a half was spent in American prisons, where he along with Sukhwinder Singh Sukhi, was interned after being arrested on May 14, 1987 at a New Jersey gas station. Following extradition from the USA, Ranjit Singh Gill was tried and convicted in the Lalit Maken case last year.

Reminisces Dr Davinder Kaur whose husband, Dr Bhupinder Singh, is also a renowned surgeon: “It has been over a decade and a half since I was separated from my brother.

Ranjit was then a 25-year-old bubbling with energy. He cleared his matriculation exam securing 70 per cent marks. As a student of M.Sc. Genetics, he was all set to carve out a brilliant career after topping in the B.Sc examination. He was selected for PhD at Kansas University. As a player he excelled in hockey. Then like countless young men in Punjab who were swayed by religious emotion and rhetoric of political leaders, he left home never to return. Since then, 17 precious years of his life have been wasted behind bars. On his extradition to India, I could only catch a glimpse of him through a wire mesh unlike the privilege extended to Zaffarwal and I was not allowed to go anywhere near. For months, I could not talk to him. He has greyed. The prime of his youth has been lost behind bars. The period of his imprisonment has already exceeded a life term. Will he ever get an opportunity to start life afresh,” she asks in bitter tone.

The family of Ranjit Singh Gill, whose father, Dr Khem Singh Gill, is a former Vice-Chancellor of Punjab Agricultural University, has suffered emotionally as well as financially. During his imprisonment in the US transit jail, contact was difficult. For 10 years he did not get to see the sky. The US lawyers, namely Mr Ronald Kuby and Ms Mary Pike, who were defending them, charged as much as $ 4000 per hearing.

Ever since his extradition, Ranjit Gill has been lodged in Tihar Jail.

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[Guest balwinderkaur]

just a quick question.. has online petition ever made any impact on anything before?? just a question ive been wondering.. anyone here could please shed some light.. thanks

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