Two relatives of Sanaullah, the Pakistani prisoner who got critically injured in a scuffle at Jammu’s Kot Bhalwal Jail, visited him at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Research and Education on Tuesday. The condition of the patient is extremely critical as he has now developed jaundice, said sources.
According to the report of the PGI, the patients continues to be febrile, in deep coma and his clinical condition is extremely critical.
Mohammad Shahzad, the brother in law of the injured Pakistani and his nephew Mohammad Asif crossed over to India from the Attari border earlier in the day. Both the relatives, who had come from their village Aura in district Sialkot of Pakistan, were received by officials of the Pakistani High Commission. One diplomat of External affairs Ministry of Pakistan, Iqbal Hussain came along from Pakistan.
Both the relatives have been granted a visa for fifteen days by India after a request was made by the family to the Indian High Commission in Islamabad.
The relatives were not allowed to interact with the media as they reached PGI, and heavy security was deployed in place to avert any untowardly incident.
Earlier Pakistan high commissioner to India Salman Bashir demanded impartial probe into the case of attack on Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay.
He said, “The case of Sanaullah demonstrates the need to address the case of Pakistani prisoners humanitarianly. We expected the results of the investigation by the Govt of India should be shared with us.”
He claimed that there are around 500 Pakistani prisoners in Indian jails and most of them don’t have consular access. He also said that around 40 have completed their term in jail.
Talking to reporters in Amritsar, the relatives urged the Indian government to release Sanaullah so that they could take him back to Pakistan.