India asks Pak to send back remains of Kirpal
New Delhi, Apr 14, 2016, DHNS:
India has asked Pakistan to immediately send back the mortal remains of Indian national Kirpal Singh, who recently died in a jail in the neighbouring country.
Though Islamabad conveyed to New Delhi that Kirpal Singh died at a jail in Lahore in Pakistan due to a heart attack, India on Wednesday asked the neighbouring country to share more details about the circumstances of his death.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said that Kirpal’s death in a jail in Pakistan should be investigated. She said the India would conduct a post mortem on his body after it was brought home from Pakistan.
“It is being said from the other side that Kirpal died of heart attack, we would want it to be investigated during post mortem,” said Swaraj. She made the remark after Kirpal’s sister Jagir Kaur and other members of the family met her in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Kirpal, who originally hailed from Gurdaspur in Punjab, died at the Kot Lakhpat jail in Pakistan, after languishing in the prison for almost 25 years. He was arrested after straying into Pakistan inadvertently in 1992 and was subsequently accused of being involved with a series of bomb-blasts in Punjab province of the neighbouring country.
He died in jail on Monday.
“We want it to be investigated if Kirpal really died of heart attack,” said External Affairs Minister. She was obviously referring to the killing of Indian national Sarabjit Singh in the same jail in Pakistan in May 2013. Sarabjit had been on death row in Pakistan since 1991 for being involved in a series of bomb blasts that killed 14 people at Lahore and Multan back in 1990. He was assaulted inside the jail by some other inmates and was fatally injured. He was declared dead later.
India’s acting High Commissioner in Pakistan, J P Singh, met Muhammad Faisal, Director General (South Asia) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Pakistan government, in Islamabad on Wednesday.
Though Islamabad conveyed to New Delhi that Kirpal Singh died at a jail in Lahore in Pakistan due to a heart attack, India on Wednesday asked the neighbouring country to share more details about the circumstances of his death.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said that Kirpal’s death in a jail in Pakistan should be investigated. She said the India would conduct a post mortem on his body after it was brought home from Pakistan.
“It is being said from the other side that Kirpal died of heart attack, we would want it to be investigated during post mortem,” said Swaraj. She made the remark after Kirpal’s sister Jagir Kaur and other members of the family met her in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Kirpal, who originally hailed from Gurdaspur in Punjab, died at the Kot Lakhpat jail in Pakistan, after languishing in the prison for almost 25 years. He was arrested after straying into Pakistan inadvertently in 1992 and was subsequently accused of being involved with a series of bomb-blasts in Punjab province of the neighbouring country.
He died in jail on Monday.
“We want it to be investigated if Kirpal really died of heart attack,” said External Affairs Minister. She was obviously referring to the killing of Indian national Sarabjit Singh in the same jail in Pakistan in May 2013. Sarabjit had been on death row in Pakistan since 1991 for being involved in a series of bomb blasts that killed 14 people at Lahore and Multan back in 1990. He was assaulted inside the jail by some other inmates and was fatally injured. He was declared dead later.
India’s acting High Commissioner in Pakistan, J P Singh, met Muhammad Faisal, Director General (South Asia) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Pakistan government, in Islamabad on Wednesday.
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