Publication Date : 10-05-2013
Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay, who was badly injured after a scuffle with a fellow inmate in a Jammu jail last week, died here today. His body was flown to Pakistan by a special aircraft.
"Sanaullah was declared dead around 7 a.m. due to multiple organ failure. The team of doctors headed by Dr YK Batra tried their best to revive him," a spokesperson of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research said. A special Pakistan International Airlines flight took off from Chandigarh airport this evening with the body of the prisoner which was earlier handed over to officials of the Pakistan High Commission. Two of Sanuallah’s relatives were on board.
Pakistan demanded that India should conduct “a fair and impartial inquiry” into his death. “We will also demand from the government of India to immediately release 47 prisoners of Pakistan who have already completed their sentences,” the Pakistan High Commission's Press Attache said.
An official spokesperson in the ministry of external affairs earlier said India will facilitate Pakistan's request to repatriate Sanaullah’s body and provide necessary assistance. In view of the tragic events, including the killing of two Indians in Pakistani jails and the Sanaullah incident, India has proposed that officials of the two countries meet and take forward the recommendations of a judicial committee on humane treatment of prisoners, he said.
Sanaullah was brought to Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in critical condition on 3 May, after being hit on the head by a fellow inmate at the Kot Balwal jail in Jammu. The attack happened a day after Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh died in Pakistan. A resident of Sialkot in Pakistan, Sanaullah was arrested in 1996 for involvement in a bomb blast at Katra near the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in 1994 that left 10 people dead. He was serving a life term.
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