Spy Surjeet Singh handed over to Indian authorities; confesses offense

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Surjeet Singh released after 27 years

LAHORE: Indian prisoner Surjeet Singh was released Thursday from Kot Lakhpat jail after serving his lifeterm for 27 years, Geo News reported. He will be handed over to Indian authorities via Wagha border.


In his brief talk after release, Surjeet Singh said that he had pleasant time while being jailed in Pakistan but he kept on missing his home and family.
Surjeet said that he will go to Golden Temple as soon as he will reach India to express his gratitude.
Surjeet Singh, son of Sucha Singh, was originally given death sentence that was commuted in 1989 by then president Ghulam Ishaq Khan on the advice of then premier Benazir Bhutto.
Surjeet Singh was held at Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore. He was captured near the border with India on charges of spying during the era of military ruler Zia-ul-Haq.

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Surjeet singh talking at wagah bordor

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...Pak-for-good-treatment/videoshow/14455337.cms

 

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I went to Pakistan to spy, confesses Sarjeet Singh

By Web Desk / Sunara Nizami

Published: June 28, 2012

LAHORE: Speaking to Indian media just minutes after he crossed the Wagah Border into India, Sarjeet Singh confessed to his offense, saying that he went to Pakistan for spying, Express News reported on Thursday.

After the Ministry of Law and Justice approved his release on Tuesday, life sentence prisoner Sarjeet Singh crossed the Wagah Border, and after 27 years, stepped on his native soil just a few minutes prior to this confession of being guilty.

Family and friends rushed to greet Singh as he reached India.

Speaking to the media on the Pakistani side of the Wagah Border, Singh, now over 60 years old, said that both sides should release prisoners.

India should release Pakistani prisoners and Pakistan should release Indian prisoners, that is all I want to say, he said in Punjabi.

Upon being asked as to whether he would ever come back to Pakistan, he said, I dont want to come back to Pakistan.

When asked whether he did not want to come back because he did not like the country, Singh dispelled the notion saying he actually did like the country but said that was not the reason.

I was accused of being a spy, he said. If I come back, agencies will have doubts that I am here to spy again, that is why I will not come back.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/400493/homecoming-surjeet-singh-taken-to-wagah-border/

 

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LAHORE: Speaking to Indian media just minutes after he crossed the Wagah Border into India, Sarjeet Singh confessed to his offense, saying that he went to Pakistan for spying, Express News reported on Thursday.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/400493/homecoming-surjeet-singh-taken-to-wagah-border/

 

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Re: Surjeet Singh released after 27 years

Even though one spy who was involved in killing of 14 Pakistani is not released for now. But one spy is released. While according to RM the other one would also be released but there are some glitches in working that out. Namely the veto by Pakistani Army.

 

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Indian Spy Surjeet Singh Released & Handed Over To India!

 

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‘Spy’ Surjeet Singhhanded over to Indian authorities; confesses offense
Dawn.com | AFP | 1 hour ago

Freed Indian prisoner Surjeet Singh(L), escorted by Pakistani security officials, waves before leaving Pakistanfor India at the Wagah border on June 28, 2012. An Indian man freed afterspending three decades in a Pakistani prison for spying walked across theborder Thursday into India where he was met by family and hordes of reporters.-AFP PHOTOC

LAHORE: ‘Indian spy’Surjeet Singh was handed over to Indian authorities at the Wagah border afterbeing imprisoned in Pakistan for 30 years, DawnNews reported.


As soon as Singhlanded in India after his release, he confessed that he went to Pakistan forspying.

After his statement,Indian security forces whisked him away. Earlier Surjeet Singhhad been shifted from the Kot Lakhpat prison to the Wagah border under heavypolice protection.

“I met my childrenafter 30 years in my country. This is happiness,” said Surjeet Singh, 69, whowas captured in Pakistan’s eastern border areas in the 1980s and handed a deathsentence after being convicted on spying charges.
Singh, who waswelcomed by Indian officials after walking over the Wagah border crossing inPunjab state, said he had been well treated during his long term ofimprisonment.
Pakistani media hadoriginally reported that the person being released was Sarabjit Singh, ahigh-profile prisoner who has spent two decades on death row in Pakistan afterbeing convicted for his role in a string of bombings.

Sarabjit Singh’sfamily has campaigned steadily for his release, claiming he is an innocentfarmer from Indian Punjab who crossed the border by mistake.

Indian ForeignMinister SM Krishna urged the Pakistani authorities on Wednesday to releaseSarabjit Singh as well as all other Indian prisoners whose prison terms hadended.

India released an80-year-old Pakistani doctor, Khalil Chishti, last month on humanitarian grounds, after he was convicted ofmurder and sentenced to life imprisonment following an 18-year-long trial.
In April 2011 GopalDas, one of Pakistan’s longest-serving Indian prisoners was released afterPakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari intervened in his case.

Upon his release, Dasadmitted he was an Indian spy and lashed out at the Indian authorities forabandoning him during his 23 years in jail.

While talking to mediapersons on the occasion Singh said he was not a spy and that he was treatedproperly and faced no problems during his stay in Pakistan.

He added that he likedPakistan but if ever tried coming back then the agencies would consider him aspy, he also lauded the efforts of former federal interior minister RehmanMalik for making his freedom possible.