Pakistan Govt tells LHC no mercy petition on behalf of Sarabjit pending before Zardari

Lahore, The Lahore High Court has disposed of a petition challenging a possible grant of presidential pardon to Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who is on death row.

The court also dismissed another petition seeking medical check-up and treatment of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who is on death row.

Earlier, Sarabjits counsel, Advocate Awais Sheikh, had submitted that his client had developed heart disease due to his long captivity.

He said that without proper sunshine and physical exercise, Sarabjit had been suffering from backache, high blood pressure, eating disorder, migraine, insomnia, and high cholesterol, the Dawn reports.

He also requested the court to allow him to teach Yoga to Sarabjit during his meetings with him in the jail, so that he could be cured of depression, stress, and his physical and mental health could be improved.

However, a report submitted on behalf of the Punjab Home Secretary rejected the arguments of Sarabjits counsel, Advocate Awais Sheikh, and maintained that the Indian prisoner was in good health and there was no need to get him medically examined at the hospital outside jail.

About the petition challenging a possible presidential pardon to the Indian prisoner, the federal government filed its report and stated that no mercy petition on behalf of Sarabjit was pending before the President of Pakistan, so there was no likelihood of the pardon to him.

At this, the court disposed of the petition.