Chandigarh : Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay, injured in a scuffle with another inmate in a Jammu jail and admitted to PGIMER here, died this morning, an institute spokesman said.
“The patient was brought in a brain dead condition and died this morning due to multiple organ failure,” a PGI spokesman said here.
The body has been shifted to the mortuary of the Institute from the ICU in the Advanced Trauma Centre.
52-year-old Sanaullah was airlifted from Jammu to the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) on Friday.
The PGI spokesman said that it was a case of death in
custody and a post mortem will be conducted for which a medical board
is being constituted.
“The post mortem will be conducted by the Medical Board in the presence
of a Magistrate and videography will be done of the process,” he said.
When asked about handing over of the body to the two relatives of
Sanuallah, who arrived here on Tuesday from Pakistan, the spokesman
said that it was for the Chandigarh administration and the Union
Home Ministry to decide.
“The PGI will act on handing over of the body as per the instructions
of the government,” the spokesman said.
His condition had worsened yesterday following kidney failure and
neurological problems.
“Patient has become extremely critical. He has developed renal failure
with no urine output since morning. Hence he was put on peritoneal
dialysis by Nephrologists,” the bulletin issued last evening said.
A resident of Sialkot in Pakistan, Sanuallah was serving a life
term after he was convicted under TADA provisions following his arrest in 1999.
He was injured in a scuffle with another inmate in the high-security
Kot Balwal jail in Jammu and rushed to the PGIMER here in an air
ambulance on Friday last.
The assault came a day after the death of an Indian prisoner Sarabjit
Singh who was brutally attacked by fellow inmates in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail.
Sanuallah’s relatives, who arrived here yesterday, brother-in-law
Mohammed Sehzaad and nephew Mohammed Asif visited him for about 10
minutes in the Advanced Trauma Centre of the PGIMER here today.
Tight security arrangements had been put in place around the Advanced
Trauma Centre where Sanuallah was hospitalised.
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