The prisoners were freed in Sharjah after Dubai-based Indian businessman S.P. Singh Oberoi paid 1.8 million rupees ($40,000) as compensation to relatives of an Indian who was killed by the three men in October 2008.
Kashmiri Lal, Trilochan Singh and Pradeep Kumar, sentenced to death in 2009, told reporters in the northern Indian city of Amritsar that they were innocent.
“I paid the blood money to save these men,” Oberoi told AFP at Amritsar airport where the men were welcomed home by their families.
0 comments