ISLAMABAD: Leading Pakistani rights activist Ansar Burney scheduled to visit India next month to meet Sarabjit’s family and gather any evidence about his innocence.

Burney was the Human Rights Minister in Pakistan's caretaker government and while in India will also trace Pakistani prisoners in Indian jails.

Burney disclosed that he would go to India on April 2 at the invitation of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.

''I plan to meet Sarabjit's family and his sister Dalbir Kaur to gather evidence they claim to have regarding his evidence. This will make it easier for me to work for his case,'' Burney said.

''At the same time, I will also try and meet the Pakistani prisoners who are in Indian jails. Obviously I will also try and do whatever is possible for their release,'' he added.

President Pervez Musharraf had on March 19 deferred the hanging of Sarabjit, scheduled for April 1.

Sarabjit was sentenced to death in 1991 for his alleged involvement in four bomb blasts in Lahore and Multan that killed 14 people.