SIALKOT: The funeral prayers of Shakirullah, a Pakistani prisoner killed in India’s Jaipur Central Jail were offered in Daska, Sialkot on Sunday.
Indian authorities handed over his body to Punjab Rangers at the Wagah-Attari border on Saturday.
The family of the deceased, was present at the border to receive his body. Shakirullah was beaten up by inmates and died on February 20. The release of his body comes 12 days after his murder.
He was arrested in 2003 after mistakenly crossing the border. His family maintained that he was mentally unstable and was going to a fair in Shakargarh.
Pakistan had lodged a strong protest with the Pakistani High Commission and sought an explanation from Indian authorities regarding the incident.
The Foreign Office in a press release on February 21 had said that they had been informed that Shakirullah had sustained injuries following a “scuffle” between fellow inmates in the television room of the jail, “which proved fatal”.
The FO noted that as per some Indian media reports, Shakirullah was lynched.
“It is incomprehensible how a ‘scuffle’ between prisoners in an established government set up was allowed to escalate to the extent that Mr Shakirullah sustained fatal injuries,” the statement said.
According to The Hindu, the deceased was undergoing life imprisonment after his conviction in a terror-related case in Jaipur in 2017.
from Pakistan Today
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