Lahore/Amritsar, May 1 (ANI): Distraught family members of Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh returned home via the Wagah-Attari land border route on Wednesday after doctors at Lahore's Jinnah Hospital reportedly indicated that he was clinically dead.
Raj Kumar Verka, the Vice Chairman of the National Commission for the Scheduled Castes, was quoted by All India Radio, as saying in Amritsar that he spoke to Sarabjit's sister Dalbir Kaur, who had told him that doctors have told her that Sarabjit is brain dead.
Sarabjit's lawyer Awais Sheikh told a news channel from Lahore that he will file a new petition in Lahore High Court today seeking permission for Indian doctors to examine him.
Sarabjit's sister Dalbir Kaur said that she would seek an appointment with the UPA chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi to brief her about Sarabjit Singh's condition and request her to press the Central Government to ask Pakistan to handle the case more sensitively.
Sarabjit Singh, 49, was admitted to the Jinnah Hospital last Friday following a vicious attack on him by six Pakistani prisoners at Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail.
He has been in a comatose state and is on ventilator support ever since.
The Indian Government had earlier appealed to Pakistan for Sarabjit's release even while a medical board in Pakistan said that he would continue to get treatment in Pakistan and not be shifted out.
The Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi has asked Pakistan to take a sympathetic and humanitarian view on Sarabjit. (ANI with inputs)
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