LAHORE – A district and sessions court in Lahore acquitted two suspects accused of killing Indian spy Sarabjit Singh inside Kot Lakhpat jail.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Moin Khokar passed orders on Saturday to release Amir Tanba and Mudasir Munir from custody after all witnesses retracted their statements.
The suspects were fellow prisoners of Singh and were accused to have killed him in April 2013 at a time when the caretaker regime was in place in Punjab province with Najam Sethi as the chief minister.
Singh was left severely injured after being assaulted with bricks and other sharp weapons. He was rushed to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Lahore’s Jinnah Hospital, however, lost his life after a few days.
Lahore police had registered a case under Section 324/34 related to planned attempted murder in group under the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of the then superintendent Kot Lakhpat jail, Waqar Sumra.
The Indian foreign ministry had asked Pakistan to investigate the killing of 49-year-old. Singh’s sister Dalbir Kaur had also demanded Pakistan to conduct an inquiry into the murder as to how the security was compromised to that extent.
“If the attack was planned by the government itself, then there is no need for an inquiry. But if Sarabjit was attacked without the knowledge of the authorities, then an inquiry is definitely needed,” she had said after
