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Indian Embassy officials get consular access to Sarabjit in Lahore hospital (Lead: Sarabjit)

Lahore, Sat, 27 Apr 2013 ANI

Lahore, April 27 (ANI): Indian Embassy officials on Saturday got consular access to death row convict Sarabjit Singh in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Lahore's Jinnah Hospital, where he was admitted after being attacked on Friday by two prisoners in the jail.

"Officers of India's High Commission in Islamabad obtained access to Sarabjit Singh in the ICU of Jinnah hospital, Lahore at 2 a.m.," External Affairs Ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin said in a statement.

Pakistani doctors told Indian officials on Saturday that he has been put on ventilator.

Doctors are carrying out trauma control and are awaiting a stabilisation in his condition before conducting further tests.

"Doctors attending to Sarabjit Singh informed the Indian officials that he is in coma on ventilator and receiving IV drip," External Affairs Ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin tweeted.

X-rays, MRIs and CT scans have been conducted on Sarabjit, who has suffered injuries on his head and also has swelling on his face, he added.

There is tight security outside Lahore's Jinnah Hospital where Sarabjit is being treated.

Sarabjit Singh sustained serious head injuries when he was attacked by other inmates in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail on Friday afternoon.

He was shifted to Jinnah Hospital where he is said to have regained consciousness around 8 p.m. local time, but a late night report in The Express Tribune said he had slipped into a coma and is on ventilator support.

Jail official Munawar Ali said Singh was attacked by two death-row prisoners while they were having tea.

Apparently, an argument ensued after which the other two prisoners attacked Sarabjit Singh with bricks and blades.

In a letter to his family in August 2012, Sarabjit had expressed fears that he could be poisoned in jail.

Sukhpreet Kaur, Sarabjit's wife, said, "Where should I go now, whom should I approach? I have knocked at every door to plead for my husband's safety, but nothing has happened. Our worst fears have come true."

"Please save my papa. I want to see him. I was expecting that he would be back with us soon, but this news has shattered me," said a sobbing Poonam, Sarabjit's daughter.

Former Pakistan Cabinet Minister and human rights activist Ansar Burney said the attack on Sarabjit appeared to be pre-planned, and appealed to the Pakistan Government to issue visas to Sarabjit's family to enable them to visit Lahore.

"I don't think it was any spontaneous act, but a planned attempt to kill Sarabjit. The security in a death cell is unprecedented and no one can dare to smuggle anything in. The government should conduct a probe into the incident," he said.

Sarabjit had strayed into Pakistan in 1990 in an inebriated condition and was arrested on spying charges. He has been accused of perpetrating bomb blasts in Lahore in the early 1990s that killed and injured many people.

Sarabjit Singh is the second Indian prisoner to be attacked in Kot Lakhpat Jail this year.

On January 15, Chamel Singh - a native of Jammu - succumbed to injuries sustained under mysterious circumstances within the prison premises. (ANI)


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