Death of Indian national in Pak jail : Indian envoy asked to take it up at highest level

The Indian envoy has also been asked to take up the issue of early transportation of mortal remains of  Kirpal Singh, who died on Monday, back home.

"On Kirpal Singh, our acting high commissioner in Islamabad has been instructed to seek a meeting at the highest possible level in the Pakistan foreign office this forenoon to seek early transportation of the mortal remains," external affairs ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup said on Wednesday.

"He will also ask for official information on cause of death, postmortem report etc," he said.

Kirpal Singh, 54, died at a hospital in Pakistan's Kot Lakhpat Jail. He was on death row on the charge of being an Indian spy and involved in a bombing at Faisalabad Railway Station in 1991.

Pakistani authorities said Kirpal Singh died due to heart failure.

On Tuesday, a sister of Kirpal Singh protested at the Attari-Wagah integrated checkpost on the India-Pakistan border over his death.

"My brother Kirpal has been murdered just like Sarabjit was earlier. The Pakistani jail authorities are responsible for his death," Jagir Kaur said during the protest.

Sarabjit Singh was another Indian national to have died in a Pakistan jail in 2013 after he was attacked by fellow inmates.

Kirpal Singh's family  demanded that his body be handed over to them for cremation at his native village in Punjab's Gurdaspur district.