A special Air India plane will leave for Lahore shortly to bring back the body of Sarabjit Singh, who died there in the wee hours today.
The plane will have officials from the Ministry of External Affairs and Air India crew, official sources said, adding that it was not imemdiately clear whether anyone from the family was onboard the plane.
The plane was scheduled to leave at 12 noon earlier but has been delayed by two hours due to last minute clearances, the sources said.
49-year-old Sarabjit, who was brutally attacked in a high-security Lahore jail by fellow inmates on Friday, succumbed to his injuries early today. He was convicted of alleged involvement in a string of bomb attacks in Pakistan's Punjab province that killed 14 people in 1990 and spent about 22 years in Pakistani prisons.
Early today, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said a plane will go to Lahore to bring back the mortal remains of Sarabjit Singh.
The Home Minister said New Delhi had tried its best to convince Islamabad to hand over the Indian who had been languishing in Pakistani jail for more than two decades.
