When we were to leave after the meeting, we were told to show our passports.She recalled that as Singh loved "bharwan karela", a bitter gourd dish, the family cooked it at their home in Amritsar and brought it for him.In 2013, Sarabjits sister, wife and two daughters had again China plastic foot tub travelled to Lahore, but this time the distraught family were allowed just a glimpse from a distance of a comatose Singh who had been admitted to a hospital after a brutal assault in a Pakistani jail.Dalbir Kaur said that Singhs family had gone to meet him in a Lahore jail in 2008. He was convicted of terrorism and spying by a Pakistani court and sentenced to death in 1991."
Even before the meeting was to take place, the behaviour of Pakistani authorities was bad. We were even asked to take out our kadas (bracelets)," Dalbir Kaur said. They opened the container and forcibly stuffed it into our mouths asking us to taste it first," she said."Before proceeding to meet Sarabjit in jail, a manager at a Lahore Gurudwara asked us to keep our passports there.Chandigarh: The family members of Sarabjit Singh were humiliated when they went to meet him with Pakistani authorities even wiping off the sindoor from his wifes forehead, his sister Dalbir Kaur said on Thursday amid outrage over the treatment meted out to Kulbhushan Jadhavs mother and wife."I was the only one to be granted a visa."When I met Sarabjit, he cried a lot, asking me to help prove his innocence," she recalled.
A female cop took out a handkerchief and wiped out the sindoor from Sukhpreets forehead."We had no clue of the shocking things that were to unfold before our meeting with Sarabjit," Dalbir Kaur, who hails from Amritsar district, told PTI over the phone. They took my kirpan forcibly and when I asked them to at least keep it safely, they flung it in some corner showing disrespect which deeply hurt my religious sentiments," she said. Sarabjits teenaged daughters were also mistreated, and authorities were rude even after I raised objections.Dalbir Kaur said that in 2011 too she met Singh in jail.However, the Pakistani government had stayed his execution for an indefinite period in 2008."First Pakistan portrayed the meeting of Jadhavs family as a humanitarian gesture, they then humiliated the family by asking them to remove bindis, mangalsutras etc and separated the family from him by putting up a glass screen.
Jadhavs mother and wife were stripped of their bindis, bangles and mangalsutra, made to change into different clothes and wear slippers by discarding their shoes.That was not the end of the ordeal, she said.On the treatment meted out to the family of Jadhav, who is in custody in Pakistan for alleged spying, Dalbir Kaur said after playing a cruel joke by not allowing the family to meet the Indian national freely, Pakistan was now making baseless charges of a chip, camera or a recorder in the footwear of his wife.The ordeal was similar to what Jadhavs family endured in Islamabad recently, according to Dalbir Kaur.Dalbir Kaurs brother Singh had died following an assault by the inmates at a Lahore prison in April 2013.Singhs wife Sukhpreet Kaur, his teenaged daughters Swapandeep and Poonam, besides Dalbir Kaur went to Lahore to meet the Indian national for the first time in 18 years.He passed away barely a few days later.
From now on, we should be even more firm towards Pakistan because they deserve such treatment and can only understand tough language," she said. Both Sukhpreet and I were asked to take out hair pins as well. Now, they have come up with this baseless charge of chip, camera etc. But this time too their treatment was no different."However, again the Pak authorities were rude. I think India has responded as strongly and appropriately as it should in such circumstances. When reminded that we had been asked to deposit these at the Gurudwara, the Pak authorities delayed our departure telling us that the documents were not traceable," she said
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