Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay, 51, who was seriously injured in a scuffle with a fellow inmate in Jammu’s Kot Bhalwal Jail, lost the battle for life at Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGI) around 7 am on Thursday. After autopsy, his body was handed over to Pakistan Embassy officials who took it to their country in a special PIA plane.
PGI Director YK Chawla said, “It is sad that he died. But our team of medical experts under the able guidance of Dr YK Batra gave best possible treatment, and the Pakistani official who were monitoring the condition of the patient are satisfied with our efforts.”
The media was not allowed inside the air terminal when the body was being taken into the aircraft. The two relatives of Sanuallah — brother-in-law Mohammed Sehzaad and nephew Mohammed Asif — who arrived here on Tuesday from Sialkot also travelled in the special plane.
A resident of Daluwali in Sailkot district of Pakistan, Sanaullah was arrested in 1994 for his involvement in two blasts at passenger vehicles at Satwari and Manda Morh in Jammu city, in which 14 persons were killed and several others were injured.
Pakistan demanded that India should conduct “a fair and impartial inquiry” into the prisoner’s death. “We will also demand from the Government of India to immediately release 47 prisoners of Pakistan who have already completed their sentences,” the Commission Press Attache said.
In view of the tragic events, including the killing of two Indians in Pakistani jails and the Sanaullah incident, India has proposed that the officials of the two countries meet and take forward the recommendations of a judicial committee on humane treatment of prisoners, he said. A Pakistani response to the proposal is awaited, the spokesperson said.
In the meanwhile, Pakistani prisoners in high security Kot Bhalwal jail in Jammu went on on ‘fast’ protesting the death of Sanaullah Ranjay.