Chandigarh Police has tightened security arrangements for the Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Khan who was airlifted to Chandigarh airport for treatment in PGIMER after he got critically injured in an attack by jail inmates in Kot Bhalwal jail of Jammu on Friday morning.
More than 500 police officials were deployed in the city for the security of Pakistani prisoner in the city.
The Pakistani prisoner reached Chandigarh airport on Friday evening and was taken to the Advanced Trauma Centre of PGIMER where special arrangements for his treatment was made by PGIMER authorities.
Meanwhile, elaborate security arrangements were also made on the roads connecting Chandigarh Airport to PGIMER — Advance Trauma Centre along with deployment of large number of police officials at the PGIMER premises.
A police official deployed for the security of the Pakistani prisoner said that special orders were given to the Police Department to block the area from where the ambulance was to arrive in PGIMER. Police Department has been ordered to keep check on the mischievous elements.
Meanwhile, some members of Shiv Sena also reached the PGIMER premises in the afternoon protesting against admitting Sanaullah Khan in the PGIMER. The protestors were later nabbed by police officials on the spot.
Reportedly, in the morning 54-year-old Sanaullah was hit by a hammer and bricks on the head at Bhalwal Jail of Jammu by a former soldier convicted of murder.
Sanaullah had been imprisoned after being convicted for his terrorist activities in valley and other regions.
As per reports, it is not clear as yet as to whether the violence was in retaliation for the death of Sarabjit Singh, the Indian prisoner who died in lahore on Thursday after he was fatally assaulted by a group of men in the jail where he had spent more than 20 years.