Amir Sarfaraz alias Tamba, an accused within the brutal killing of Indian dying row prisoner Sarabjit Singh in Kot Lakhpat jail in 2013, was killed by unidentified gunmen in Lahore on Sunday, information company PTI reported,

The report mentioned Tamba, a detailed affiliate of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror outfit founder Hafiz Sayeed, was attacked by motorcycle-borne assailants within the capital metropolis of Pakistan Punjab. Tamba was rushed in important situation to a hospital the place he succumbed to his accidents, PTI reported citing sources.

Tamba was born in Lahore in 1979 and was a detailed affiliate of the LeT founder.

It is necessary to notice that Tamba was killed six years after he and his ally Mudassir Munir had been acquitted by a Pakistani court docket because of ‘lack of evidence’, within the brutal killing of Indian dying row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, 49, in Kot Lakhpat jail in 2013.

Singh was killed in captivity by attacking him with bricks and iron rods in 2013. At the time of the incident, each had been in jail after their conviction in one other legal case. Later, he died of cardiac arrest in Jinnah Hospital Lahore within the wee hours of May 2, 2013, after being comatose for almost per week following a brutal assault contained in the high-security Kot Lakhpat jail.

Sarabjit Singh was a farmer from Bhikhiwind city in Punjab, who used to dwell close to the India-Pakistan border, and who mistakenly crossed the border whereas he was drunk. Sarabjit was imprisoned in Pakistan jail on prices of espionage and was sentenced to dying by a Pakistani court docket in 1991.

During his two-decade-long stint in Pakistan’s jail, his sister Dalbir Kaur fought in opposition to the system to launch her brother. Kaur claimed that his brother was a sufferer of mistaken identification and began a authorized battle to deliver his brother again to India. Soon, her efforts caught the eye of nationwide and worldwide media.