The distressed family of Sarabjit Singh, Indian death row prisoner at Pakistan is likely to return India on Wednesday after the declaration of doctors about Sarabjit as "clinically dead". Sarabjit was assaulted brutally in a Lahore jail last week and since then his condition was critical.
Raj Kumar Verka, vice chairman of the National Commission for the Scheduled Castes on Tuesday confirmed that Dalbir Kaur, Sister of Sarabjit who went to her brother to Pakistan told her that doctors have told her that Sarabjit was "brain dead".
"I think that Sarabjit had died earlier. Why did the Pakistan government have to do this drama (of allowing the family to visit him in Lahore) when he was already gone? They sought her permission to remove him from the ventilator," Verka, who was instrumental in securing visas for four members of Sarabjit's family from the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi Saturday, told media.
Moreover, Sarabjit's lawyer Awais Sheikh told a news channel from Lahore that Sarabjit's sister had told her that their family wants to return home.
"After the doctors told her about Sarabjit's condition, she first told me that they wanted to go back today (Tuesday). But later, in their hotel, they said that they will go back tomorrow (Wednesday) morning," Sheikh told the channel.
Sarabjit Singh was admitted to a Lahore hospital after a serious attack on Apr 26 by the fellow prisoner Kot Lakhpat and had been kept on ventilator support ever since.
Earlier on Monday Pakistan denied the appeal of India to provide medical support for Sarabjit saying he would continue to get treatment in Pakistan and not shifted out.
The ministry of external affairs in New Delhi had appealed Pakistan government to take a "sympathetic and humanitarian" view on Sarabjit.
Dalbir Kaur, Sarabjit's wife Sukhpreet Kaur and daughters Swapandeep and Poonam, visited Pakistan Sunday afternoon to see him in a Lahore hospital.
Sabarjit had been on death row in Pakistan since 1990 after being convicted by Pakistani courts for bomb blasts in Lahore and Multan in which 14 people were dead.
-With inputs from IANS
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