Sarabjit Singh’s sister Dalbir Kaur has alleged that Indian man Kirpal Singh, who died under mysterious circumstances in Pakistan jail has actually been murdered.
While speaking to reporters, Dalbir said Kirpal Singh ki hatya hui hai, maut nahi hui.”
Kirpal Singh ki hatya hui hai, maut nahi hui-Dalbir Kaur(Sarabjit Singh’s sister) pic.twitter.com/X1RYC03QmG
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Demanding a high level enquiry into the case, she said that a special team from India should be sent to Pakistan to find the truth behind Kirpal Singh’s death.
High level enquiry should be done,team from India should go there & investigate: Dalbir Kaur (Sarabjit’s sister) pic.twitter.com/P6W9ux4FUp — ANI (@ANI_news) April 12, 2016
Kirpal Singh was languishing at a Lahore jail for more than 20 years on spying charges. Pakistan alleges that he crossed Wagah border into Pakistan in 1992 and was arrested then.
He was subsequently sentenced to death in a serial bomb blasts case in Pakistan’s Punjab province.
“Kirpal Singh was found dead at his cell in early hours of Monday at Kot Lakhpat Jail,” an official of Kot Lakhpat Jail told PTI.
He said the body of Kirpal has been shifted to the Jinah Hospital Lahore for autopsy. A judicial magistrate was also called who recorded the statements of some prisoners about the death of Kirpal, the official said.
To a question about the death of Kirpal by torture, he said: “The inmates of the jail near to Kirpal stated that he complained about pain in his chest and died instantly.”
Kot Lakhpath Jail police station head Nafees Ahmed told PTI that the jail authorities had called police to shift the body to the dead house.
“Apparently, it seems the Indian prisoner died of natural death. However, autopsy will tell the exact cause of death,” he said.
Ill-fated Kirpal from Gurdaspur has reportedly been acquitted of bomb blast charges by the Lahore High Court but his death sentence could not be commuted because of unknown reasons.
Jagir Kaur, Kirpal’s sister, earlier said that the family couldn’t raise voice for his release due to financial constraints and no politician came forward to plead his case.
Earlier, in last week of April, 2013, Indian prisoner on death row Sarabjit Singh was brutally attacked and murdered by his fellow prisoners at Kot Lakhpat Jail.
Both accused – Muhammad Muddasar and Amir Tamba also condemned prisoners – are facing trial of his murder at the jail.
Sarabjit was arrested on charges of conducting four bomb blasts in Faisalabad, Multan and Lahore that killed 14 bystanders in 1990. He was sentenced to death.
(With Agency Inputs)