02 December 2011 :

Two Indians, who were facing death sentence in the UAE, are set to be released this month as their death penalty was commuted by a Sharjah court after an Indian hotelier paid Rs eight lakh in blood money to the family of victim.
The two youth from Punjab had been awarded death sentence in Sharjah for bootlegging and murdering another Indian from Andhra Pradesh.
Talwinder Singh from Kapurthala and Paramjiit Singh from Gurdaspur were in prison since 2009 for murdering Chinna Ganganna Chepuri from Hyderabad. The case was being heard at a Sharia court in Sharjah.
"We have paid blood money, which alongside other expenses, have cost around Rs 10 lakhs. Their death penalties have been waived and they will now only get three years of jail, which they have almost served," S P Singh Oberoi, a local businessman and founder president of Indian Punjabi Society told PTI.
Oberoi said the verdict was delivered on November 29 after a pardon letter was signed by the family of the victim.
"It will take around a week to 10 days for the two Punjabis to be released," Oberoi said.
Oberoi had paid Rs eight lakh as 'diya' or blood money to the family of Chepuri last month.