Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh's body was brought to India after he died in a Pakistani hospital, succumbing to his injuries six days after being attacked by his fellow inmates in a jail and pushing the India-Pakistan equation to a new low

01 / 19

Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh's body was brought to India after he died in a Pakistani hospital, succumbing to his injuries six days after being attacked by his fellow inmates in a jail and pushing the India-Pakistan equation to a new low. (PTI/Deepak Sharma)

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02 / 19

Authorities started a post-mortem examination of the body after it was brought from Lahore by a special Air India flight to Amritsar's international airport and taken by helicopter to his native town Bhikhiwind, 50 km from Amritsar. (PTI)

03 / 19

Following his death, the authorities in New Delhi and Punjab announced a number of measures, including state-level honours at his cremation, financial assistance to the family and government jobs to both his daughters. (PTI/Deepak Sharma)

04 / 19

While Pakistan declared him a terrorist and convicted him for blasts in Lahore and Multan that left 14 dead, his family claimed that the devoted brother, husband and father from a poor rural family in Punjab had strayed across in an inebriated state when he was just 26.

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05 / 19

Sarabjit's family, which was in New Delhi, reached Bhikhiwind by helicopter. Scores of local residents gathered at the helipad to meet them and accompanied them to their house. (BCCL/Pritam Thakur)

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06 / 19

Protestors gathered at various places and condemned the "cowardly" act by Pakistani authorities which led to Sarabjit's death. (PTI)

07 / 19

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal announced three-day mourning for Sarabjit and said that he would be given a state-level funeral. He announced government jobs for Sarabjit's two daughters and financial assistance of Rs.1 crore. (BCCL/Pritam Thakur)

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08 / 19

The union government also announced assistance of Rs.25 lakh to the distraught family. (PTI)

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09 / 19

Most of his years were spent in anonymity but in death, Sarabjit - who had been brutally assaulted with bricks and plates in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail April 26 and had slipped into a deep coma - became the latest bone of contention between the troubled neighbours.

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10 / 19

India's ministry of external affairs did not mince its words either and said Sarabjit's death was "put simply, the killing of our citizen while in the custody of Pakistani jail authorities". (PTI)

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