Indian National Gurdip Singh is on the list of people likely to be executed by Indonesia for drug related crimes.
On Thursday, SBS Hindi reported that 48-year-old Gurdip Singh, who hails from Jalandhar, Punjab was found guilty of trying to smuggle 300 grams of heroin into Indonesia in 2004 and was sentenced to death by the state district court in Tangerang in Banten province in February 2005.
The Indonesian government has not released a formal list but lawyers from the Community Legal Aid Institute compiled a list of those it believes are likely to be executed and that list has Indian national Gurdip Singh on it.
On Friday, news came in early morning that after four people faced the firing squad overnight and another 10 were granted a last-minute reprieve.
Gurdip Singh was among those spared.
This has come as a huge relief to Gurdip’s family in India. “We are grateful to the Indian government. He called from jail a short while ago to say he is fine. All he wants now is to return home. We appeal to the government to help him come back,” Singh’s wife Kulwinder Kaur told Hindustan Times over the phone.
Source: Hindustan Times
“Indian ambassador in Indonesia has informed me that Gurdip Singh whose execution was fixed for last night, has not been executed,” Swaraj tweeted.
Afdhal Muhammad, Singh’s legal representative, was of the view that he could file for Presidential clemency. The Indian embassy sent a note to the ministry of foreign affairs of Indonesia, requesting that all legal recourse should be exhausted before the death penalty is carried out.
