"Government has seen comunications from Sarabhjit Singh regarding his ill treatment in Pakistan Jail.
"In view of these reports, High Commission of India, Islamabad, has approached the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan, to provide special consular access to Sarabhjit Singh at an early date," Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.
Sarabjit, 49, is currently being held at Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore and has been on death row for over 20 years.
Sarabjit was convicted and sentenced to death for alleged involvement in a string of bombings in Punjab in 1990 that killed 14 people.
He has alleged the jail authorities were serving him "unhygienic" food, which was "difficult to eat", and he was being mistreated.
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