16 March 2006 :
Pakistan's Supreme Court upheld the death sentence awarded to Sarabjit Singh, alleged to be an agent of India’s Research and Analysis Wing and involved in five bomb blasts in Pakistan. A two-member bench comprising Justice Hamid Ali Mirza and Justice Muhammad Nawaz Abbasi dismissed the appeals filed by Singh.A Punjab anti-terrorism court had awarded Singh the death sentence on five counts, upheld by the Lahore High Court. Singh then filed an appeal in the Supreme Court.
According to the prosecution, Singh had admitted to involvement in bomb blasts in Anarkali and Bhati Gate in Lahore, Bhawana Bazar in Faisalabad, in Multan, and on a bus—from Lahore to Ghazi—in 1990. The defence informed the Court that Singh was, at most, a smuggler of Indian liquor into Pakistan.
Singh was arrested at the Kasur border on August 30, 1990 when he was reportedly leaving Pakistan, having allegedly carried out the blasts. During interrogation, Singh said he was born in Uttar Pradesh and lived near Agra till he left in 1972, and settled in Amritsar, the report said. According to his ‘‘confession’’, he joined the Indian military intelligence in 1987, and was assigned tasks in Pakistan. Soon, he became a permanent RAW agent, in which capacity he went to Pakistan 14 times.
(Sources: Indian Express, 19/08/2005)