HYDERABAD, March 16: About two dozen people staged a protest demonstration outside the press club here on Saturday against the alleged killing of an under trial prisoner allegedly by the authorities of the Hyderabad Central Jail.

The people, who carried the body of the deceased, alleged that Mehmood Khoso, an under-trial prisoner, had died due to the torture at the hands of the jail authorities.

The cousin of the deceased, Ghulam Rasool, who had received the body after the postmortem examination, and his friend, Saeed Bhurgari, told newsmen that Khoso had been hung upside down and severely tortured by the jail authorities .

They said that when the condition of the prisoner became critical, he was shifted to the Liaquat University Hospital, city branch, where he died.

They held the superintendent, deputy superintendent and jailer Aurangzeb Kamboh responsible for the death of Khoso.

They demanded that the jail officials should be dismissed from service and a murder case should be registered against them. Eyewitnesses said that torture marks were visible on the body of the deceased.

Mehmood Khoso, resident of Ibrahim Khoso goth, Samaro taluka, Umerkot district, had been in jail for the last 22 months in a case of water theft and damage to crops.