No to death penalty, Release Sarabjit Singh

To:  Honourable President of Pakistan,Honourable Chief Justice of Pakistan

Respected Sirs,
Sarabjit Singh, also known as Manjit Singh, is an Indian citizen held prisoner in Pakistan. He was convicted for his alleged involvement in 1990 serial bomb blasts in Lahore and Multan that killed 14 people. He is just a poor farmer and victim of mistaken identity, who strayed into Pakistan from his village located on the border.
He is a simple farmer who was arrested after he strayed across the Pakistani border from his northern frontier hometown of Bhikiwind in Punjab state while drunk in 1990. His wife Sukh Prit Kaur, a resident of Bhikhiwind village of district Tarantaran, claimed he left to plough his fields near Wagah Border on August 28, 1990, but never returned. She said the family launched a search but could not find any clue to his whereabouts for nine months and finally they received a letter from Manjit informing them that he was caught by Pakistani border forces when he mistakenly crossed the border under the influence of liquor. External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh took up Manjit Singh%u2019s case with Pakistan High Commissioner Aziz Ahmed Khan and urged him to convey Delhi%u2019s hope that Islamabad would treat the matter as a humanitarian issue.

Shaukat Salim, a key witness in the case against Sarabjit, was caught on tape retracting his statement on April 26, 2008. Salim's father and other relatives were killed in the attack, and he says that Sarabjit was the one who planted the bomb. But, earlier, he had said that he made the statements implicating Sarabjit under pressure from the Pakistani police. Meanwhile, Sarabjit's lawyer Abdul Rana Hamid told CNN-IBN that Salim's statements have no value as they were never recorded in court.
We are hopeful that the government of Pakistan will release Manjit Singh after reviewing his death sentence and our efforts for his release will not prove futile..

Respectfully submitted by

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

The No to death penalty, Release Sarabjit Singh Petition to Honourable President of Pakistan,Honourable Chief Justice of Pakistan was created by and written by Amandeep Singh (cognitive.control@yahoo.com).  This petition is hosted here at www.PetitionOnline.com as a public service. There is no endorsement of this petition, express or implied, by Artifice, Inc. or our sponsors. For technical support please use our simple Petition Help form.