Dubai businessman who gave death row convicts a second chance

          

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• S. P. Singh Oberoi, President of Dubai-based NGO Sarbat Da Bhala, is currently working on a project in Punjab to build homes for elderly cancer patients.

Dubai: He has saved 54 people from death sentences or life in prison. He is now working to save another 30 inmates of various nationalities.

Meet 59-year-old S.P. Singh Oberoi, a Dubai-based Indian businessman and a well-known name in UAE prisons.

“I believe that none of us are born criminals. None of us want to land up on the wrong side of the law but at times we are governed by circumstances,” said Oberoi, who paid Dh3.4 million in blood money to enable 17 Indians to walk free from jail.

The men were on death row for murdering a Pakistani in Sharjah in January 2009.