A Pakistani prisoner was found hanging under mysterious circumstances inside the toilet of the barrack in the wee hours of Saturday in district jail Ambphalla. Identified as Showkat Ali, S/o Barkat Ali of Sialkote, Pakistan, the prisoner was declared dead by the doctor present on duty before he was rushed to the hospital.
According to official sources, “Showkat Ali was lodged in the district jail along with Pakistani and Bangladeshi nationals. In the wee hours of Saturday around 3 am another jail mate identified as Bashir, hailing from Pakistan, had first noticed Showkat Ali hanging inside the toilet”.
Bashir went to attend call of the nature. After he raised an alarm, the jail authorities also rushed towards their barrack and found Showkat Ali hanging inside the toilet. Before Showkat was rushed to the hospital he was declared dead by the doctor present on duty in the jail premises, the official sources said.
Showkat was nabbed along the Indo-Pak International border in Arnia sector and was serving the jail term under the Foreigners Act since 2011. The State Government has ordered a Magistrate inquiry to ascertain the facts of the case. Meanwhile, the dead body of the Pakiastani prisoner was later shifted to the Government Medical college hospital for postmortem and other necessary formalities.
The body of the prisoner was expected to be handed over to the Pak authorities after finalising the arrangements, official sources said. last year in May 2013 another Pak prisoner identified as Sanauallah, serving a life term, was attacked inside the jail and later he succumbed to his fatal injuries.