We are all too familiar with the passage If you are caught, the agency and your government will disown your existence and these words are not a figment of fiction. This letter may sound harsh to readers, but in the reality world of espionage, this is the bottom-line and every undercover agent working behind enemy lines with an adopted identity, is very familiar with them. This could explain the persona confusion about Sarabjit Singh, the innocent cross-border straggler, and Manjit Singh, the planted RAW agent on a mission that misfired. This could likely explain why a Manjit Singh stood on trial as possibly there never existed any identity on the man to prove he is Sarabjit Singh. Has any disclaimer statement come forth from RAW? It wont- because even denial would be an indirect confirmation of its covert operations across the border and extremely dangerous in exposing other operatives. One can sympathize with the family who would never have been aware if at all Sarabjit was inducted by RAW, but the excess T.V media hype is raising misplaced hopes in this sensitive diplomatic row. We pray that Sarabjit alias Manjit does not walk the last mile and his sentence gets commuted to life, but let us not fool ourselves in believing that he will merely walk across the gates at Wagah.
