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We don't spy on neighbours, asserts India
Friday June 29, 2012 09:10:03 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: India
Friday said it does not indulge in spying on its neighbours,
including Pakistan, and dismissed the claim of Surjeet Singh, the
Indian who was imprisoned in Pakistan on charges of spying about
three decades ago and freed Thursday.
Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh told a press conference here that
the Indian government does not accept that Surjeet Singh was a spy
for India inside Pakistan.
"We do not do such spying...We do not accept that he (Surjeet) is
a spy," Singh responded to queries on the Indian prisoner's
"confession" soon after he crossed into India at Attari-Wagah
border checkpost in Punjab Thursday.
"It is completely wrong. We deny it. Neither we do spying, nor we
send spies," he said.
"If someone is claiming (to being a spy), he is doing so just to
get importance or for some other reasons," Singh added.
The home secretary said he had read reports that Surjeet was
mistreated in Pakistan prison.
On being told that Surjeet had claimed the contrary and said that
all Indian prisoners in Pakistan were being treated well, Singh
said: "One report had said his hands had been cuffed...if anybody
says Indian prisoners were treated well in Pakistan, I can fish
out statement of others who say otherwise."
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