INDIA WILL REPLAY TO PAKISTAN
BSF personnel and relatives of Kirpal Singh receiving his body at
Attari-Wagah border.
The body of Kirpal Singh, the Indian
prisoner who died in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail on April 11 was brought to India
via the Attari-Wagah border on Tuesday.
The body of Kirpal Singh, the Indian prisoner who died in Lahore’s
Kot Lakhpat Jail on April 11 was brought to India via the
Attari-Wagah border on Tuesday.
An autopsy was performed on the body
in the government Medical College Hospital, Amritsar after which Singh’s family
was allowed to take the body for the last rites. Though the Pakistani
authorities had informed that Kirpal Singh died of a heart attack, his family
had demanded a thorough probe into the cause of his death.
Earlier his family had told The Hindu that
they were thankful for the help extended by the Ministry of External Affairs to
bring his body back from Lahore. “We were informed by the district authorities
in Gurdaspur that Pakistan would send his body through the Wagah border by
Tuesday noon,” Ashwini Kumar, Singh’s nephew told The
Hindu over telephone from Gurdaspur.
Kirpal Singh had been imprisoned in
Pakistan since 1992 after he was arrested on charges of bombing of the
Faisalabad railway station in 1991 and was sentenced to death for spying and
terrorist activities against Pakistan.
He had been imprisoned in the high
security Kot Lakhpat Jail of Lahore from where he had been writing regularly to
his family in Gurdaspur. His last letter reached his family after his death in
which Kirpal had expressed his desire to return home.
Kirpal Singh’s death follows the 2013
death of Sarbjit Singh in the same prison premises.
Both Sarbjit and Kirpal were accused
of terrorist activities against the Pakistani State and were sentenced to
death. Kirpal Singh was reportedly acquitted later on by the Lahore High Court.
However he remained imprisoned till his death. Indian death in Pakistan jail, Kirpal Singh death
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