Lahore High Court Chief justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry on Wednesday granted permission to an Indian national, Dalbir Kaur, to meet her brother Sarabjit Singh on Thursday in the Kot Lakhpat Jail where he is on a death row for killing 14 people in two bomb blasts in Punjab in 1990. Kaur will meet Sarabjit in the jail at 11 am on Thursday, her counsel Awais Sheikh told the media after getting permission from the court.
The court directed the Punjab home secretary and Kot Lakhpat Jail superintendent to allow Kaur two meetings with her brother, first on June 16 (today) and second on the day when she would leave Pakistan for India as a ‘goodbye meeting’.
Awais Sheikh, counsel for Sarabjit Singh, had filed a petition in the Lahore High Court praying to permit Kaur to meet her brother in jail, which the court accepted after listening to the counsel’s arguments.
The counsel contended that the jail authorities and the home secretary were not permitting Kaur to meet her brother, which was against basic human rights. Kaur arrived in Lahore on June 6 to meet Sarabjit. She said her brother had already served his term of life imprisonment because he had been in jail for the last 20 years after the LHC and the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence awarded by the trail court. Sarabjit’s family insists that he has been wrongly convicted for the bombings.
