Body of Indian brought from Pakistan cremated

GURDASPUR: Mortal remains of Kirpal Singh were consigned to flames at his village, as hundreds of people gathered to mourn and bid him farewell. Kirpal died in Pakistan's Lahore jail in suspicious circumstances last week and the case has created quite the uproar in India. A former Indian serviceman, Kirpal was in Kot Lakhpat Jail since 1992. His family has maintained he had inadvertently crossed into Pakistan in 1992. Pakistani authorities called him a spy and got him convicted for terror attacks, initially sentencing him to death. He was later commuted to 20 years' imprisonment. Kot Lakhpat is the same jail where Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh was murdered in April 2013. His sister Dalbir Kaur attended the cremation.