LARKANA, June 3 An under-trial prisoner, Sabir Hussain Buledi, facing robbery charges, died under mysterious circumstances in the central jail here on Wednesday.

Mir Mohammed Buledi, the cousin of the UTP, accused the jail police of torturing to death Sabir Hussain Buledi. Sabir was all right on Tuesday night when he phoned his wife and talked to her and complained about the jail police's excesses, he said.

The Medico-Legal Officer (MLO), Dr Abdul Rahim Baloch, who carried out post-mortem, told Dawn that wounds on the chest, arms, back, legs and abdomen were caused with some sharp instrument, which were “fresh” and not “self-inflicted.

However, he said that these wounds were insufficient to cause the death so to reach the conclusion as to what could be cause of death of the UTP, the specimen of viscera were preserved and sent to the laboratory to ascertain the cause of the death.

The prison police brought the at the casualty department of the Chandka Medical College Hospital at 930am with visible torture marks on it.

The department's Medical Officer Dr Khial Das told journalists that the UTP was already dead when he was brought to the hospital and he informed the jail police about it.

The jail police wrote a letter to the Civil Lines police station for the post-mortem of the UTP. But the police asked the jail police to ask Waleed police for the purpose because the UTP had died in the jurisdiction of the central prison.

Later fourth civil judge and judicial magistrate of Larkana asked the jail police to write to Waleed Police Station for supervising the autopsy.

When contacted, the jail superintendent of central prison, Aijaz Haidar, claimed that the UTP had died while on his way from jail to hospital. He was a psycho patient, the jail superintendent claimed.

Buledi, a resident of Gahtahar village of the Qambar area, was challaned on January 31 for possessing illegal arms and robbery and later shifted him to the central prison, sources said.