June 20, 2008	Friday	Jamadi-us-Sani 15, 1429

ISLAMABAD, June 19: An undertrial prisoner on Thursday died soon after reaching the court premises, apparently due to his poor health condition.

JK and his brother were arrested by Tarnol police for robberies.

When he was disembarking from the prison van along with other UTPs he fell on the ground and got unconscious. He was shifted to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) where doctors pronounced him dead. The body was shifted to mortuary for legal process.

A senior officer of the Adiala Jail told Dawn that the UTP was in good health and checked by the jail officials before handing him over to personnel of capital police to transport him to the courts.

Some eight days back, he was treated for fever and dysentery in the jail hospital, he said. Quoting his subordinates he said he might have suffered cardiac arrest.

The autopsy on the body revealed that he was emaciated, week and suffering from dehydration, sources said.

The sources said that the family members claimed that he was subjected to torture by the jail personnel, which resulted in his death.

In a short period of three days it was second incident in which a jail inmate allegedly died of torture.