New Delhi, May 2 (ANI): Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Thursday met the family members of Sarabjit Singh, who died in a Pakistani hospital after being comatose for nearly a week, and assured them to make all efforts to bring back his body.
"We are making efforts so that his body is handed over to us as soon as possible. Our foreign ministry is holding talks with the Pakistan government. And once the body comes its funeral will be conducted as per the wishes of his family," Shinde told reporters after meeting Sarbajit's sister Dalbir Kaur and other family members here.
Shinde further said that India had till the end requested Pakistan to release Sarabjit Singh.
Shinde said India had raised the issue of Sarabjit with Pakistan in different forum and he himself raised the issue when Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik visited India last year and asked him for the release of the Indian.
Sarabjit had been admitted to the intensive care unit of the hospital, where four of his family members - his sister, wife and two daughters - had visited him.
They returned to India yesterday, and roundly condemned the Indian Government for not taking up their cause in right earnest.
Dalbir Kaur even called on Prime Minister Singh to resign over the issue. (ANI)
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