Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has said that India was waiting for a detailed report on the circumstances of Indian prisoner Chamel Singh’s death in a Pakistani jail.
Khurshid, asked if he accepted Pakistan’s explanation of the death, said, “I don’t have to take Pakistan’s explanation… We are awaiting the autopsy, and when a full report is given to us and detailed investigation report given, we will be able to reflect on it.”
Asked when India would be given the report, he said, “We have been told that it will be given to us.”
A senior official of Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore, where Singh died in January, had termed the reports “malicious Indian propaganda” that Singh died after allegedly being tortured in the jail and said a stroke was the reason.
Singh, said to be in his 60s and serving a five-year-term for spying, had died in Jinnah Hospital on January 15.
Rafiq Chaudhry, senior superintendent of Kot Lakhpat Jail, said Singh, a native of Kashmir, had suffered a stroke while working in the compound of Barrack No 4 with other Indians and died on his way to the nearby hospital.