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Indian prisoner's death: Pakistan yet to
provide autopsy report
Saturday April 13, 2013 06:37:46 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
India is still awaiting the post-mortem report of an Indian
prisoner who died in a Pakistani jail allegedly after being
tortured.
India has been "repeatedly requesting the Pakistani authorities
for a post-mortem report" of Chamel Singh who died in Lahore's Kot
Lakhpat Jail Jan 15, external affairs ministry spokesperson Syed
Akbaruddin told reporters here.
Responding to a question, he said India has been following the
case of the "unfortunate death" of the Indian prisoner for the
past over two months.
"As far as we know, the post-mortem report has not been provided
to us as yet. Once we receive the report, we will study it and
decide on the further course of action.
"But the first order of business is to get the post-mortem report
as early as possible, and we have requested the Pakistani foreign
ministry on several occasions to speed up the process," he added.
Chamel Singh, said to be in his 60s, was serving a five-year term
for espionage and died at Pakistan's Jinnah Hospital Jan 15.
During an autopsy done on March 13 - nearly two months after his
death - marks of injury had reportedly been found on the body.
Soon after Chamel Singh's death, reports surfaced that he had been
beaten up by prison staff for washing clothes in the prison
compound.
In view of the media reports, an inquiry was conducted after which
the post-mortem was conducted, and the body was handed over to the
Indian high commission soon after.
The Indian high commission had requested the foreign office of
Pakistan to provide a copy of the autopsy report.
Pakistani authorities have denied that Chamel Singh died after
being assaulted by jail staff.
A jail official had said that Singh, a native of Jammu and
Kashmir, had suffered a stroke while working in the compound of
Barrack No.4 with other Indian inmates and was rushed to the
nearby Jinnah Hospital. However, he died on way to hospital.
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