Sarabjit Singh attacked in Lahore`s Kot Lakhpat Jail - Zee News - Zee News

Zee Media Bureau Lahore: Indian national Sarabjit Singh, currently on death row in a jail here in Pakistan, was on Friday attacked by fellow prisoners in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail. According to reports, Singh was attacked by two-three prisoners when he was washing his clothes. He is reported to have received severe head injuries in the incident. Sarabjit was admitted to the state-run MA Jinnah Hospital for treatment where he still remains critical. Some other reports claim that the attack reportedly occurred while Singh was being moved from one cell to another. He sustained a head injury and was initially taken to the hospital within the prison. After his condition worsened, Sarabjit was taken in an ambulance to Jinnah Hospital. There has been no official word on the incident. Officials of the Indian High Commission said that they had not been informed by Pakistani authorities about the incident. The Kot Lakhpat jail currently has some 17,000 prisoners though its official capacity is only 4,000. There have been instances in the past of prisoners being attacked and even killed within the prison. Authorities had tightened Sarabjit's security after the recent execution in India of Afzal Guru, who was convicted of involvement in the 2001 terror attack on the Indian parliament. Sarabjit was convicted for alleged involvement in a string of bomb attacks in Punjab province that killed 14 people in 1990. His mercy petitions were rejected by the courts and former President Pervez Musharraf. The outgoing Pakistan People's Party-led government put off Sarabjit's execution for an indefinite period in 2008. Sarabjit's family says he is the victim of mistaken identity and had inadvertently strayed across the border in an inebriated state. "Yes, this is very much disturbing. This is not something that we can ignore. Naturally, this will have very very serious consequences. "Whatever has happened, our jail authorities are responsible for that. Hope god saves Sarabjit Singh. He has been seriously hurt," Owais Sheikh, Sing's lawyer said. With PTI inputs For Zee News's Updates, follow us on Twitter , Facebook, Google+, Pinterest First Published: Friday, April 26, 2013, 19:32 via Top Stories - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGo8zkYsARwn46eK1Du5wF0WlHybA&url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/sarabjit-singh-attacked-in-lahore-s-kot-lakhpat-jail_844896.html

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