NEW DELHI, June 6: Pakistan is considering the mercy plea of Indian national Sarabjit Singh, sentenced to death in that country on terror charges.
But there is a view that he was a victim of a case of mistaken identity.
“His case is being examined on humanitarian grounds along with those of many others,” diplomatic sources said here when asked whether there would be some reciprocation after Pakistani microbiologist Mohammed Khalil Chishti’s release here.
Pakistani human rights activist Ansar Burney has appealed to President Asif Ali Zardari to convert the death sentence of Sarabjit to life imprisonment on humanitarian grounds because of the fact that he had already undergone imprisonment of 21 years.
However, the sources said the Pakistan government did not see any comparison between his case and that of their national Dr Chishti, who was recently granted bail by the Supreme Court here and allowed to visit Islamabad after spending 20 years in jail in Ajmer on the charges of murder of a person with whom he was said to be involved in a brawl.
The 82-year-old microbiologist was on a private visit to India in 1992 to see his ailing mother when the incident happened.
Sarabjit Singh has been booked on the charges of carrying out blasts.
But Mr Burney, in his letter to Mr Zardari, has contended that the Indian national was not given a fair trial and was the victim of a case of mistaken identity and his death would be tantamount to “murder of justice”, reports from Islamabad said.
(UNI)
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