The Canada-based wife of a convicted terrorist in India may soon be reunited with her husband.
Navneet Kaur, a nurse in Surrey, B.C. who has been fighting for the release and jail transfer of her husband - Babbar Khalsa International terrorist Davinderpal Singh Bhullar, won a victory recently when he was transferred to a facility in Punjab from the notorious Tihar jail.
Bhullar, a reputed Khalistan Liberation Force terrorist, was sentenced to death for masterminding a 1993 car bomb attack in front of the Youth Congress office in New Delhi that killed 12 people.
Bhullar's wife Navneet Kaur had demanded he be lodgd in the Amritsar Jail, citing his poor health. Kaur, who had migrated to Canada in 1994, has her parental house in Amritsar.
Despite claiming that he has lost his memory, Bhullar not only recognised his relatives but has also asked the head of Swami Vivekanand de-addiction centre Dr PD Garg to allow his wife, Navneet Kaur, to live with him, after his transfer to Punjab last week, Indian media said.
A court that approved the transfer ordered that only Bhullar’s family members would be allowed to meet him.
However Indian media said Damdami Taksal chief Harnam Singh and other hardline leaders met with Bhullar.
Meanwhile, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal claimed that the transfer of convicted terrorists to the state would not pose any threat to the peace and harmony. 
“Sikh prisoners from other states will hardly pose any threat to peace and harmony in the state. Each and every decision of the state government was aimed at preserving the hard-earned peace, communal harmony and amity in the state,” Badal said in Phagwara. 
The chief minister said state governments across the country have been following the policy of transferring prisoners from one state to another, and Punjab was hardly an exception.
He added that the state government was duty-bound to maintain peace, law and order of the state at any cost. 
The apprehensions regarding revival of militancy with this decision are baseless and Congress leaders are just creating a fuss over the issue, Badal said.
Bhullar has spent over 20 years in jail and there have been appeals from his friends and organisations to release him on humanitarian grounds as he was mentally not stable.
Slamming the Congress for misleading people on the Bhullar issue, Badal questioned the party, saying: "Congress leaders owe an answer to the people as to how militancy could revive with the transfer of indisposed person like Professor Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar in the state."
He said Bhullar's family had been pleading with the central and state governments to transfer him to a jail in Punjab so that they will be able to meet him frequently.
"Apprehensions regarding revival of militancy in the state with this decision are totally baseless and Congress leaders are just creating a fuss over the issue to score brownie points before the media," Badal added.
Punjab saw Sikh militancy from 1981 to 1995 in which over 25,000 lives were lost.
Navneet, 48, a Canadian citizen claimed that her husband, who was an engineering college teacher in Punjab, had been framed by police in the blast case. “Bhullar was never a Khalistani and the government should find out the killers of the 1993 blast and compensate their families,” she said.
The Bhullar couple does not have any child.
Campaigns and rallies to save Bhullar had won the support of World Coalition Against Death Penalty, American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International who launched a petition campaign. 
Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) has also joined the issue by asking the prime minister to intervene to save Bhullar who once taught at Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College in Ludhiana.
In a letter to Prime Minister Harper, the late NDP leader Jack Layton has called Bhullar’s trial “questionable” and his conviction “doubtful”.
Layton had alleged that Bhullar was found guilty based on “unsubstantiated confession made in police custody, while being tortured and threatened with death.’’