Amir Sarfaraz Tamba, an accused within the homicide of Indian loss of life row prisoner in Pakistan Sarabjit Singh and a detailed affiliate of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror outfit founder Hafiz Sayeed, was killed by unidentified gunmen in Lahore on Sunday, official sources stated.
Tamba was attacked by motorcycle-borne assailants within the Islampura space of Lahore in Pakistan and was rushed in important situation to a hospital the place he succumbed to his accidents, the sources stated.
Singh, 49, died of cardiac arrest in Jinnah Hospital Lahore within the wee hours of May 2, 2013, after being comatose for practically per week following a brutal assault by inmates together with Tamba, contained in the high-security Kot Lakhpat jail.
Tamba, son of Sarfaraz Javed, was born in Lahore in 1979 and was a detailed affiliate of the LeT founder who felicitated him for killing Singh.
Notorious as ‘Lahore ka asli don’, Tamba was a part of the ‘Truckenwalla gang’ and was engaged within the property commerce and drug trafficking.
He was concerned in a conflict just lately with one of many gang members Ameer Balaj Tipu who was later killed throughout a wedding reception in Lahore.
A bunch of Pakistani prisoners had attacked Singh with bricks and iron rods. Singh had been allegedly discovered responsible of collaborating in a number of bombings in Pakistan’s Punjab province in 1990 and was given the loss of life penalty.
Singh’s household maintained he was a sufferer of mistaken id and had inadvertently strayed throughout the border. His sister Dalbir Kaur had fought an extended battle to safe his launch from the neighbouring nation, however failed. She died in 2022 in Amritsar.
The reviews quoting the household of Tamba stated two males got here on a motorbike to their home and shot him within the higher storey.
Tamba’s physique bore 4 bullet wounds, two every within the chest and legs, the reviews stated, including whereas one of many gunmen was carrying a helmet, one other had put up a masks on his face and each of them fled the scene after firing at him.
Tamba was having fun with all amenities together with a cell phone contained in the jail throughout his imprisonment for his prison actions, the sources stated.
Source: www.thehindu.com
