Ajmer, May 12 (ANI): Octogenarian Pakistani prisoner Mohammad Khaleel Chishty, who was permitted by the Indian Supreme Court to visit Pakistan for a temporary stay, has expressed his desire to meet Sarabjit Singh, the Indian prisoner on death row in the country.
"I have heard about Sarabjit Singh's case. He is languishing in Pakistan jail for many years. I really want to meet him and would also try to speak to higher authorities for his release," The News quoted Chishty, as saying.
Sarabjit Singh has been in Pakistan prisons for more than 20 years. He has been convicted for staging four bomb blasts in Lahore and Multan in 1990 that claimed 14 lives.
Sabarjit's family members, human rights activists and the Indian government have been urging Pakistan to grant clemency to him.
Chishty, a virologist in the Karachi Medical College, was sentenced to life imprisonment in January last year after an 18-year trial in a murder case. The Indian Supreme Court granted him condition bail on April 11, and permission to visit Pakistan, subject to certain conditions that include that he returns to India by November 1. (ANI)
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