Indian national Sarabjit Singh’s killer shot dead in Pakistan

Unknown gunmen on Sunday (April 14, 2024) shot dead underworld don and alleged killer of Indian national Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan’s Lahore metropolis, media stories stated.

Amir Sarfaraz, alias Tamba, one among Pakistan’s needed underworld dons, was attacked by motorcycle-borne assailants in the Islampura space of Lahore, India Today reported.

He was rushed to a hospital the place he succumbed to his accidents.

Amir Sarfaraz was born in Lahore in 1979 and was an in depth affiliate of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Sayeed, the Indian information channel reported.

A case was filed in opposition to him and others for attacking Sarabjit Singh in a Pakistani jail.

According to stories, Sarfaraz was later acquitted by a Pakistani courtroom as a result of ‘lack of proof’.

Who was Sarabjit Singh?

Indian demise row prisoner in Pakistan Sarabjit Singh, 49, died of a coronary heart assault in Lahore’s Jinnah Hospital on May 2, 2013, after remaining in a coma for almost per week following a brutal assault on him by inmates.

He was reportedly attacked by inmates with bricks and iron rods.

Singh was awarded a demise sentence for spying costs and killing at the very least 14 Pakistani residents in bomb blasts in the South Asian nation’s Punjab province in 1990.

Singh’s relations and Indian authorities denied the claims.

Singh’s household claimed he crossed the Indian border to succeed in Pakistan whereas farming by mistake.

During the complete tenure, Singh’s sister Dalbir Singh pleaded tirelessly to safe his launch from jail.

Singh’s life additionally impressed filmmaker Omung Kumar to create the film titled ‘Sarabjit’.

Released in 2016, the film featured Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Randeep Hooda in the lead roles.