Shortly after crossing the Wagah border, Sarabjit's wife Sukhpreet Kaur and his daughters Swapandeep and Poonam insisted that he was innocent and had been wrongly convicted for the four bomb attacks in 1990 that killed 14 people.

Sarabjit's family, his sister Dalbir Kaur and her husband Baldev Singh have been given seven-day visas to visit Nankana Sahib and Lahore, where Sarabjit is being held on death row at Kot Lakhpat jail.