Sarabjit Singh dies in Lahore hospital
Thursday May 02, 2013 09:17:46 AM,
IANS
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Lahore: Indian death
row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who was admitted to a Lahore hospital
after being savagely attacked in jail, died Thursday, a media
report said.
Sarabjit Singh died in Lahore's Jinnah Hospital, reported Geo
News.
The head of the medical panel of the hospital was quoted as saying
that Sarabjit succumbed to injuries at 12.45 a.m. (Pakistan time)
or (1.15 a.m. Indian standard time).
Sarabjit's lawyer Awais Shiekh told an Indian news channel that
Sarabjit's death was confirmed by hospital authorities.
Sarabjit had suffered serious head injuries after being attacked
by two prisoners at Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail April 26. He was on
ventilator support since then.
"It is very sad. We are sorry that we could not save him. I had
tried to stop his family from going back to India (Wednesday)
since his condition was very bad but they went bac"," Shiekh told
the channel.
The post-mortem will be conducted Thursday morning, he said.
Sarabj't's family, including sister Dalbir Kaur, wife Sukhpreet
and daughters Swapandeep and Poonam, had gone to Lahore Sunday.
They returned to India Wednesday morning alleging that they were
not being given information on his medical status.
"We are shattered. He has been sacrificed," his family said.
"We" have heard this sad news. We tried our best to save him," "Raj
Kumar Verka, vice chairman of the National Commission of Scheduled
Castes, who was helping the family, said in New Delhi.
On Wednesday night, the Indian external affairs ministry said that
his condition was "serious and critical".
A late night tweet posted by Indian external affairs ministry
spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said: "Sarabjit Singh's medical
situation remains 'serious and critical' as per update provided to
Indian officials in Lahore at 10 pm local time."
Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan Sharat Sabharwal met Pakistan
Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani as India Wednesday asked
Pakistan to release him on "humanitarian and sympathetic grounds"
or to send him to a third country for "proper treatment".
Earlier Wednesday, Pakistan acceded to Indian request for daily
consular access to Sarabjit Singh, 49, who had suffered critical
head injuries after unprovoked and sudden assault by four to five
prisoners April 26 in the Kot Lakhpat jail.
He had been on ventilator life support since. Doctors had
reportedly indicated that he was "clinically dead".
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