HARIPUR: An undertrial died a few hours after arriving in the Haripur central jail, police and prison authorities said here on Saturday.

Jail officials confirmed the report of the prisoner’s death, saying that he was an alleged drug addict-cum-peddler.

The police said that they had arrested Mohammad Wasif, 42, of Khalo Ghazi village two days ago on charges of possessing ice drug and hashish, and a criminal case was registered against him under Section 9-D.

After the remand, according to police sources, the accused was shifted to the Haripur central jail on the orders of the judicial magistrate on Friday afternoon.

According to the jail authorities, the undertrial was in bad physical condition as he was a chronic addict, but after the initial medical examination, he was shifted to the jail hospital for treatment, where he died on Friday night.

The doctors at the jail hospital claimed that the cause of his death was cardiac arrest.

Meanwhile, the family of the deceased demanded an inquiry into the cause of his death. They also demanded legal action against the jail officials for failing to refer the inmate to the trauma centre in time.

Published in Dawn, May 14th, 2023