New Delhi: Calling Sarabjit Singh a "brave son of India", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh condoled his death in Pakistan and demanded that those responsible for the attack on the Indian prisoner should be brought to justice.
"I am deeply saddened by the passing away of Sarabjit Singh. He was a brave son of India who bore his tribulations with valiant fortitude. The criminals responsible for the barbaric and murderous attack on him must be brought to justice," he said in a statement on Thursday morning.
Manmohan Singh assured the government will make arrangements to bring Sarabjit's remains home. "May his soul be granted the peace that he could not enjoy in life. The government will make the arrangements to bring his remains home and for his last rites to be conducted in consultation with his family. The nation shares their profound grief with them," he said.
The Prime Minister also attacked Pakistan over the issue saying it was "regrettable that the government of Pakistan did not head the pleas of the government of India, Sarabjit's family and of civil society of India and Pakistan to take a humanitarian view of this case".
Sarabjit died of cardiac arrest at Jinnah Hospital in Lahore in the wee hours on Thursday after being comatose for nearly a week following a brutal assault by his fellow inmates in a high-security jail in the city.
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