A 70 year-old former MLA serving jail sentence in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case died due to Covid-19 at a hospital in national Capital. This is the second inmate of Mandoli prison to have succumbed to the infection.
Mahender Yadav was a former MLA from Palam constituency. Prison authorities said he was lodged in Jail number 14 of Mandoli prison for many years.
Ex-MLA serving jail sentence for anti-Sikh riots dies of Covid in Mandoli prison
It was here where he was undergoing a sentence of 10 years, and had been hospitalised on June 26.
Another convict Kanwar Singh, who died last month and had tested positive for coronavirus, was also lodged in Jail no. 14.
According to Sandeep Goel, the Director General, prisons, Yadav complained of uneasiness and some heart related problems on June 26.
“He was taken to DDU hospital, from where he was referred to LNJP hospital the same day and admitted there. Later, on his family’s request, he was allowed to be shifted under police guard to a private hospital in Dwarka on June 30.
“We received information that Mahender Yadav expired in Akash hospital on July 4 evening,” he added.
Yadav was lodged in jail since December 2018, according to officials.
Kanwar Singh died on June 15 in his sleep. A COVID-19 test had turned out to be positive, officials said.