KARACHI, Jan 4: An under-trial prisoner died on the way while being taken to a hospital from the Central Prison, Karachi, on Friday, police and hospital sources said.

They said that the UTP, identified as Mohammed Saeed, aged 30, was admitted to the prison’s hospital as he was suffering from high temperature. He was referred to Civil Hospital late Friday night. He died on the way to Civil Hospital, the police officials said.

Sources said that the patient had died before he arrived at the hospital. Post-mortem on his body could not be carried out on Friday evening as a judicial magistrate and a forensic expert were not available at the same time. The law stipulated that post-mortem examination of a person who died in custody should be carried out in the presence of a judicial magistrate and a forensic expert, they added.