Amritsar (Punjab), May 2 (ANI): Death of prisoner Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan has sparked anger in India as people denounced Islamabad of 'hatching a conspiracy to kill him'.
Head of Sri Akaal Takhat, the supreme religious body of Sikhs in India, Gurbachan Singh said Sarabjit's death as unfortunate." The Pakistan government did not pay heed to the repeated calls made by the Indian government and people. They have killed him by orchestrating an attack on him instead of hanging him," said Singh.
Harcharan Bains, the former media advisor to Punjab Chief Minister, Parkash Singh Badal said, "We want his body to be brought here and we will give him a funeral befitting his stature and befitting the national sentiment. "
Convicted of spying and carrying out multiple blasts in Pakistan, Sarabjit Singh was hospitalised with a serious head injury, after two fellow prisoners attacked him in Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore on April 26.
In Chandigarh, Secretary General Akhil Bharatiya (All India) Human Rights Organization, H S Tomar said Pakistan did not take adequate steps to save Sarabjit's life.
Sarabjit's family members - his sister and daughter - had returned to New Delhi on Wednesday from Pakistan after they were granted special permission to visit him. The family was seeking transfer of Sarabjit to India for better medical treatment.
The Indian government had been urging Pakistan to allow Sarabjit to be brought back to India for medical treatment, but the panel of doctors in Pakistan claimed that Sarabjit was getting the 'best treatment'.
Sarabjit Singh was arrested in Pakistan in 1991 and sentenced to death for spying and carrying out four bomb blasts that killed 14 people. His family says he is innocent.
In 2008, the then President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf stayed the execution of Sarabjit Singh after appeals for clemency from Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. (ANI)
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