NEW DELHI : A demand to get back the body of a person who was reportedly killed in a Pakistan prison after he strayed into its territory was today made in the Rajya Sabha, with government promising immediate action.
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajiv Shukla told the House, “We will take immediate action to get the body back. We will talk to the External Affairs Ministry to do the needful.”
Shukla gave the assurance after Deputy Chairman P J Kurien, on the demand of Avinash Rai Khanna (BJP), asked him what was the difficulty in bringing the body back.
Raising the demand during Zero Hour, Khanna drew attention of the government to human rights violations by Pakistan, saying Chamel Singh, a Sikh from Jammu & Kashmir had strayed into its territory and was taken into custody and a false case registered against him for spying. He said the Pakistan Army took him away and he was murdered in jail after torture.
“No voice was raised by the Indian government. The government did not exert any pressure on Pakistan on why an Indian was killed in a Pakistan Jail. Nobody is bothering to get the body back and money is being demanded for transfer of the body back to India.
“The Indian government should talk to Pakistani authorities on this death and his body be brought back at government cost and action be initiated against those who are responsible for his death,” Khanna said.
“Indians are being made soft targets and there are human rights violations against them and our government is not taking this issue strongly,” he said. (agencies)
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