New Delhi, May 24: A medical board, constituted by the Delhi government to ascertain the condition of death row convict Devinderpal Singh Bhullar, has come to the conclusion that he suffers from severe depression with psychotic symptoms and suicidal tendencies, reported the Indian Express.

The jail manual states that a death row convict has to be declared physically and mentally fit before execution.

The medical board was formed after the Supreme Court rejected Bhullar's petition to commute his death sentence to life imprisonment.

Bhullar was awarded capital punishment in 2001 after being convicted in the 1993 Delhi bomb blast case. His wife Navneet Kaur, who has been waging a legal battle to get the sentence commuted, has repeatedly underlined that he is a psychiatric patient who has already suffered because of the delay in deciding his mercy petition. Sources in the Home department told that the report of the medical board had been forwarded to Lieutenant Governor Tejendra Khanna for further action. "The medical board found that he suffered from a psychiatric disorder with suicidal implications. They basically confirmed what he was being treated for at the Institute for Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS) where Bhullar has been admitted since December 2010," a Home official said.

According to the jail manual, a death row convict has to be declared physically and mentally fit before the sentence is carried out.