India demands Pakistan to probe into Sarabjit's killing
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
New Delhi, May 2, IRNA -- Asserting that Sarabjit Singh's death was killing of an Indian citizen while in the custody of Pakistani jail authorities, India Thrusday demanded Pakistan to conduct a through probe into the incident to ensure that those responsible were punished.
It also said that the shocking attack on Sarabjit highlights the needs of concerted action by Pakistan to safeguard Indians in Pakistani jails.
"We express great anguish at the demise of Sarabjit Singh who succumbed to injuries after the brutal attack on him in Kot Lakhpat Jail," New Delhi said.
This was, put simply, the killing of our citizen while in the custody of Pakistani jail authorities.
"We demand that the government of Pakistan conduct a through investigation to identify those who were responsible, and to ensure that they are punished," Indian Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday in a release here.
The Ministry also said that it shares the pain and sorrow of Sarabjit's family and has asked the Pakistani authorities to release his body so that he can be given a funeral in India and among his own people.
Sarabjit, 49, died of cardiac arrest in a Lahore hospital after being comatose for nearly a week following a brutal assault by fellow inmates in the high-security Pakistani jail.
Sarabjit sustained severe injuries when at least six prisoners attacked him in a barrack at Kot Lakhpat Jail on Friday, hitting him on the head with bricks.
He was convicted of alleged involvement in a string of bomb attacks in Punjab province that killed 14 people in 1990. His mercy petitions were rejected by the courts and former President Pervez Musharraf.
The previous Pakistan Peoples Party-led government put off Sarabjit's execution for an indefinite period in 2008.
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