India seeks info on cause of Kirpal Singh's death from Pak

April 13, 2016 10:32

India has asked its acting high commissioner in Islamabad to seek a meeting with the Pakistan foreign office in connection with the death of Kirpal Singh, an Indian in a jail there, the ministry of External Affairs has said.

The acting high commissioner will also seek information on the cause of the death of Singh.

Meanwhile, the sister of Sarabjit Singh, another Indian prisoner who died in 2013 in a Pakistani jail, alleged that whatever happened with Sarabjit, the same has happened with Kirpal under a conspiracy.

"I had been saying since 2005 that Indian prisoners in Pakistan jails should be kept away from Pak prisoners, said Dalbir Kaur, Sarabjit's sister.S

She was comforting Kirpal's sister Jagir Kaur as they met in Gurdaspur.

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