AMRITSAR: Many Indian prisoners lodged in Pakistani jails are still suspected and are even not allowed to write letters to their dear ones in India.
Revealing this, Pakistani advocate Awaish Sheikh , who is also contesting the case of Sarabjit Singh, informed TOI on Friday that during his meeting with Indian prisoner Kuldeep Singh in Central jail on December 13th the deputy superintendent of central jail refused Kuldeep Singh to write a message for his family.
Kuldeep Singh was reportedly arrested from Shakargarh area of Pakistan in 1992 on charges of spying and was sentenced to life imprisonment by a military court on May 1996 and had already spent 20 years in Pak jail. Sheikh informed that he met Kuldeep Singh in jail after approval of home secretary .
"But to my surprise a major of Pakistan army and his junior were unofficially present in the meeting along with deputy superintendent of jail", said Sheikh adding that representatives of special branch(CID) and counter terrorism departments also accompanied him. He said this was for the first time that any lawyer met him in jail in all these years and he also gave him some eatables.
He said he handed over him a draft of mercy petition for his release on humanitarian grounds in Urdu language and also two papers for writing messages for his mother, wife and son back home so that they could be delivered to them."A jail staffer took those papers from him and gave to deputy superintendent of jail who refused to handover to me after reading them" said Sheikh adding that he was informed that he couldn't take these papers on the plea that correspondence of inmates were not allowed.
"I tried to convince him but he d idn't listen to me" said Sheikh. However he said that Kuldeep gave him a hand made key ring and asked him to convey his well being to his family members.
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