India on Thursday granted Pakistan clearance to operate a special flight to Chandigarh to take back the mortal remains of Sanaullah Ranjay.
Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah died due to multiple organ failure at a hospital in Chandigarh this morning after being attacked in a Jammu jail last week died.
“Sanaullah was declared dead around 7 am due to multiple organ failure. The team of doctors headed by YK Batra tried their best to revive him,” a spokesperson of the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) said.
Ranjay, who was critical for the last few days, had suffered renal failure on Wednesday.
The Pakistani was in deep coma ever since he was flown in here from Jammu last Friday. He was serving life imprisonment at Jammu’s Kot Bhalwal Jail. He was attacked on May 3 by an Indian prisoner.
Pakistan High Commission spokesman Manzoor Memon said in New Delhi that Pakistan was “in grief and shocked” at the death of Ranjay.
Two members of Ranjay’s family had arrived here Tuesday from Pakistan. They had appealed to the Indian government to repatriate him to Pakistan.
The attack on Ranjay took place a day after Sarabjit Singh, an Indian prisoner in Pakistan, succumbed to grievous injuries following a murderous assault in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail.
Ranjay was arrested in 1996 and charged with involvement in a bomb blast at Katra near the Hindu shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi in 1994 which left 10 people dead. He was serving life term in the Jammu jail.
–IANS