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Edited by Sindhu Manjesh | Updated: April 29, 2013 08:02 IST
New Delhi: The family of Sarabjit Singh, the Indian death row convict who is in coma after being attacked at a Pakistan prison, has pleaded that he be moved to India for treatment after meeting him at Jinnah Hospital in Lahore yesterday. Meanwhile, Islamabad has granted a second consular access to Sarabjit after New Delhi pushed for it citing "humanitarian grounds".
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"I request my Indian government to please, without further delay, take Sarabjit away from here. And take him where he can be treated well," his anguished sister Daljit Kaur told NDTV after his family met him in hospital yesterday.
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Doctors treating Sarabjit say that he has shown "no sign" of improvement and his chances of survival are "slim". The 49-year-old is in deep coma and on life support.
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New Delhi has said it will do all it can to ensure Sarabjit is sent back to India "on humanitarian grounds". We have done it in the past and the matter has been taken up at every level," Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur told NDTV.
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Yesterday, India sought regular access to Sarabjit after Pakistan suspended consular access, saying the hospital is now being deemed a sub jail. Indian diplomats had first visited Sarabjit late on Friday night.
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Sarabjit was assaulted at the Kot Lakhpat Jail, where he has been lodged since 1990, on Friday evening reportedly by six prisoners in his cell. They reportedly attacked Sarabjit with bricks and a blade.
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Two prisoners have been booked for attempt to murder. Four jail officials, including the warden, have been suspended.
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Sarabjit's family has alleged that that the attack was premeditated and that jail authorities were involved.
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They also claim that they had about a threat to Sarabjit's life to the Indian government earlier this year. "Sarabjit warned us he would be attacked... he told us prisoners were threatening him...government told us they will talk to Pakistan... why didn't they react after the threats?" Ms Kaur told NDTV.
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has condemned the attack on Sarabjit, saying it was a "very sad incident."
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Sarabjit, 49, is on death row in Pakistan, which accuses him of being responsible for bomb blasts that killed 14 people in that country 23 years ago. His family claims that he crossed over to Pakistan from his border village in Punjab in a drunk state in 1990 and had nothing to do with the blasts he is accused of.
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