He died in the hospital.
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Sarabjit’s sister, Dalbir Kaur has alleged that Kirpal, who had been languishing in Lahore’s jail since 1992 had been murdered much like her brother. To a question about the death of Kirpal by torture, he said: “The inmates of the jail near to Kirpal stated that he complained about pain in his chest and died instantly”.
Relatives of Kirpal Singh while staging protest also raised anti Pakistan slogans near the Integrated Check Post (ICP) at Attari border. He was being held in the death cell of Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail where he suffered a heart attack on Monday. He was subsequently sentenced to death in a serial bomb blasts case in Pakistan’s Punjab province.
However, Kirpal’s nephew Ashwani Kumar said the family was not informed about the death.
Singh, 55, was arrested by Pakistani security agencies in 1991 over his involvement in a bombing at the Faisalabad Railway Station in 1990.
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Previously, in last week of April of the year 2013, an Indian prisoner who was on the row of the death – Sarabjit Singh has been cruelly attacked as well as murdered by his fellow convicts at the jail Kot Lakhpat. Later, Pakistan’s High Court had acquitted him of charges of bomb blast but didn’t rescind his death sentence in spying case. Both accused Amir Tamba and Muhammad Muddasar have also destined prisoners have been facing trial the person’s murder in the jail.
