Thank you Unknown Men! Sarabjit Singh’s killer & close aide of Hafiz Saeed shot dead in Pakistan's Lahore
15 Apr 2024 10:06:12
Lahore, April 15: In a significant development, Amir Sarfaraz Tamba, an accused in the murder of Indian death row prisoner in Pakistan Sarabjit Singh and a close associate of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror outfit founder Hafiz Saeed, was killed by unidentified gunmen in an apparent "targeted attack" in Lahore on Sunday.
He was attacked by assailants on a motorcycle near his residence in the Islampura area of Lahore. Tamba had bullet wounds on chest and legs. He was rushed in critical condition to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
The Lahore sessions court's verdict came after all the witnesses turned hostile. "Not a single witness testified in the court against both the suspects. The court acquitted them for lack of evidence against them," as per an official.
Further in 2013, Singh died of cardiac arrest in Jinnah Hospital Lahore in the wee hours of May 2, 2013, after being comatose for nearly a week following a brutal assault by inmates including Tamba, inside the high-security Kot Lakhpat jail. He stayed there for 23 years. They had attacked Singh with bricks and iron rods
Actor Randeep Hooda has hailed the death of Amir Sarfaraz Tamba, an accused in the murder of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh. Calling it 'Karma', Hooda on the X platform wrote, "Remembering my Sister Dalbir Kaur and sending love to Swapandeep and Poonam, today some justice to Martyr Sarabjit Singh has been served".
It is pertinent to mention that Hooda played the lead role in Sarabjit Singh's biopic, directed by Omung Kumar. The film also featured Aishwarya Rai and Richa Chadha. Hooda had also attended the last rites of Sarabjit's sister Dalbir Kaur who died in 2022.
Swapandeep Kaur, the daughter of the Indian death row prisoner in Pakistan Sarabjit Singh, said that initially she felt satisfied that her father's killer Amir Sarfaraz Tamba was shot dead in Lahore but quickly realised that this is not justice. "At first, I felt satisfied, but then I thought that this was not justice," she said on the death of her father. Kaur also claimed that the Pakistan government got her father killed in 2013.
Tamba was attacked by motorcycle-borne assailants in the Islampura area of Lahore in Pakistan and was rushed in critical condition to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries, the sources said.
He was attacked by assailants on a motorcycle near his residence in the Islampura area of Lahore. Tamba had bullet wounds on chest and legs. He was rushed in critical condition to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
Who was Sarabjit Singh?
Sarabjit Singh had been allegedly found guilty of taking part in several bombings in Pakistan's Punjab province in 1990 and was given the death penalty. However, Singh's family in India maintained he was a victim of mistaken identity.
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His sister Dalbir Kaur had fought a long battle to secure his release from Pakistan but failed. In December 2018, a Pakistani court acquitted 2 prime suspects in the Sarabjit Singh murder case-- Amir Sarfaraz Tamba and Mudassar-- citing a "lack of evidence" against them.
The Lahore sessions court's verdict came after all the witnesses turned hostile. "Not a single witness testified in the court against both the suspects. The court acquitted them for lack of evidence against them," as per an official.
Further in 2013, Singh died of cardiac arrest in Jinnah Hospital Lahore in the wee hours of May 2, 2013, after being comatose for nearly a week following a brutal assault by inmates including Tamba, inside the high-security Kot Lakhpat jail. He stayed there for 23 years. They had attacked Singh with bricks and iron rods
Randeep Hooda reacts
Actor Randeep Hooda has hailed the death of Amir Sarfaraz Tamba, an accused in the murder of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh. Calling it 'Karma', Hooda on the X platform wrote, "Remembering my Sister Dalbir Kaur and sending love to Swapandeep and Poonam, today some justice to Martyr Sarabjit Singh has been served".
"Thank you ‘Unknown Men’," the actor wrote.
It is pertinent to mention that Hooda played the lead role in Sarabjit Singh's biopic, directed by Omung Kumar. The film also featured Aishwarya Rai and Richa Chadha. Hooda had also attended the last rites of Sarabjit's sister Dalbir Kaur who died in 2022.
'This is not justice': Sarabjit Singh's daughter
Swapandeep Kaur, the daughter of the Indian death row prisoner in Pakistan Sarabjit Singh, said that initially she felt satisfied that her father's killer Amir Sarfaraz Tamba was shot dead in Lahore but quickly realised that this is not justice. "At first, I felt satisfied, but then I thought that this was not justice," she said on the death of her father. Kaur also claimed that the Pakistan government got her father killed in 2013.
She said that had the Pakistani establishment released Sarabjit Singh then, it would have mean that he would give information about his mistreatment inside the Kot Lakhpat Jail. She also claimed that the Pakistan government was behind Sarfaraz's killing. Kaur said that if 3 or 4 people were involved in her father's murder, then this is the act of "covering up" by Pakistan to hide the "conspiracy that took place at that time."
Sarabjit Singh's letter to his family
Swapandeep Kaur also mentioned that her father said in his last letter that he was being given slow poison and was being treated "inhumanely" inside jail. "The (prison) officials here tell me that it will be your bones which will go back to India. We will not let you go back alive, the whole of India is fighting for you so much, so it is not possible for us to let you go back safe and sound," Kaur quoted Sarabjit Singh's letter.
She added that a diary where Sarabjit Singh used to write about his experience in the Pakistani jail was not sent along with his body.