Summary Sarabjit was arrested following a bomb blast in Lahore in 1990 that had killed 14 people.
LAHORE (Dunya News) - The family of Sarabjit Singh arrived in Pakistan on Sunday to meet the convicted Indian spy who is battling for his life after being assaulted allegedly by fellow inmates in the Kot Lakhpat prison.
The Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi has issued 15-day gratis visas to four members of Sarabjit’s family – his wife Sukhpreet Kaur, sister Dalbir Kaur, and daughters Poonam and Swapandeep Kaur – to meet the Indian prisoner who is in a deep coma and on ventilator at the Jinnah Hospital.
Sarabjit Singh, who was sentenced to death 16 years ago on espionage charges, was rushed to the Jinnah Hospital on Friday with multiple wounds, including a severe head injury, after his fellow inmates hit him with bricks, following an altercation.
“Sarabjit’s condition is critical with multiple wounds to his head, abdomen, jaws and other body parts, and he has been put on ventilator,” a doctor in Jinnah Hospital told AFP. “He is fighting for his life in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), and the next 24 hours are critical,” the doctor said, adding that the head injury was ‘quite severe’.
“He needs surgery but the doctors are not performing it because they don’t want to take any chances and want him to stabilise,” he said.
Sarabjit was arrested following a bomb blast in Lahore in 1990 that had killed 14 people. Subsequently, he was convicted of espionage and sentenced to death by a court.
