Family members of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh have been granted visa by the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi to meet him in Lahore. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said that the Ministry facilitated visas for four family members of Singh to travel to Lahore where he is undergoing treatment at Jinnah hospital.Those granted visas include his wife Sukhpreet Kaur, daughters Poonam and Swapandeep Kaur and sister Dalbir Kaur.

Sarabjit Singh was assaulted yesterday at the high security Lahore Jail by his fellow inmates critically injuring him. A senior doctor at the hospital said, his condition is critical as he has sustained severe injuries on his head, jaws, abdomen and other parts. He has been put on ventilator support.

Meanwhile, two retired Indian judges – Justices K S Gill and M A Khan – will soon visit a Lahore jail where Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh was seriously injured following an attack by prison inmates. They are part of a joint India-Pakistan panel looking after each other's prisoners' condition.

A senior Home Ministry official said the panel is scheduled to visit Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail within a day or two to see the conditions of Indian inmates. All members of India-Pakistan Joint Judicial Committee of Prisoners, had visited the Karachi jail yesterday and will also visit the Rawalpindi jail to meet Indian prisoners to see their conditions and prison records and whether their release could be expedited.