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Ranjit Singh Kukki surrenders without documents
WSN Network

NEW DELHI: Former militant Ranjit Singh Gill, alias Kukki, who was convicted in the Lalit Maken murder case and then became a shining example of how one can re-build one's life, even winning sympathies of the daughter of the person he murdered, has surrendered at the Delhi High Court.

Almost a fortnight after the Delhi High Court dismissed his petition to reconsider his life sentence, Kukki, son of former PAU vice chancellor Khem Singh Gill, surrendered before the Tihar Jail officials at 10 am on Monday.

Kukki surrendered without any documents, as the courts order are yet to be served on him.

His counsel KTS Tulsi described Kukki as "a transformed person" and a "law-abiding citizen (who) did not wait for the papers to be served on him."

Kukki now plans to file a special leave petition in the Supreme Court, and hopes for reprieve. Kukki was awarded life term and he has spent almost 19 years in jail before being granted a bail in 2004, when he had appealed in the court that he be allowed to meet his mother who was dying of cancer at that time. Since then Kukki was on bail. Meanwhile, Kuki's application for clemency is also pending before the Delhi Government. This despite the fact that Avantika Maken, the lone child of the slain couple, had publicly forgiven Kukki. 

18 March 2009
 

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