Late on Monday night, Sukhpreet Kaur, the wife of Sarabjit Singh who was killed in 2013 in a Lahore jail, died in a road accident falling off a motorcycle on Sunday while going to Jalandhar.
- According to Sarabjit Singh's daughter Swapandeep Kaur, the incident with her mother Sukhpreet Kaur took place in Bhikhiwind after which she had been admitted to hospital where she succumbed to injuries on Monday. Sukhpreet Kaur's cremation will be performed today.
Sarabjit Singh was a farmer from Bhikhiwind town in Punjab, who used to live near the India-Pakistan border, and who mistakenly crossed the border while he was drunk. However, he was sentenced to death by a Pakistan court in 1991.
- Singh was imprisoned in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail for 22 years before being beaten up by his fellow inmates and taken to the hospital. Doctors at Lahore's Jinnah Hospital declared Singh dead after he had been comatose for five days due to severe head injuries sustained in an attack on the jail grounds in 2013.
During Singh's 22 years in jail, his older sister Dalbir Kaur had fought against the system to release him insisting that her brother, Singh was innocent and had mistakenly strayed into Pakistan at the time of his apprehension. She also went to Pakistan to see her brother.
- The Ministry of External Affairs had asked the Pakistan government to conduct a probe into Singh's death, while his sister, Dalbir Kaur had also called for an inquiry into the case and said: "If the attack was planned by the government itself, then there is no need for an inquiry. But if Sarabjit was attacked without the knowledge of the authorities, then an inquiry is definitely needed."
Dalbir Kaur also passed away in June this year.
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