Pak prisoner was hit by blunt weapon: Post-mortem report

REPORT SHOWS EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO HIS SKULL AFTER BEING HIT BY A MARBLE SLAB, AND OTHER INJURIES

JAIPUR: The post-mortem report of Pakistani prisoner Shakir Ullah (45), who was allegedly killed by four other inmates in the Jaipur Central Jail on February 20, reveals that he was hit by a “blunt weapon” leading to ante-mortem head injuries.

HT has a copy of the post-mortem report.

According to the post-mortem report, many tissue injuries, including abrasions and lacerated wounds, were found on the right frontal temporal region of Ulla’s brain. Diffused swelling on left frontal region of the face was also found.

“When dissection of scalp tissue was done, beneath injuries there is sub scalp hematoma on both sides of frontal temporal to occipital region with fracture of both frontal, both temporal, both parietal, both occipital bones into multiple fragments. It was also found that dural membrane was torn at left and right frontal temporal region with sub-dural hemorrhage,” the report reads.

Injuries on left ear, right wrist and right thumbs prior to death were also found, the report adds.

The post-mortem was conducted by a panel of three doctors at the Sawai Man Singh hospital on February 21. The viscus of the deceased has been taken for chemical examination. According to the doctors who conducted the post-mortem, the cause of death is coma as a result of the head injuries caused by a “blunt weapon”.

The FIR in the case states that around 1.25pm on February 20 warden Ramswaroop heard a loud voice of someone shouting from the cell number 10, where nine inmates — Shakir Ullah alias Mohammad Hanif, Ajeet, Manoj Pratap Singh, Bhajan Meena, Kulwinder Singh alias Kullu, Hazi Khan, Mahesh Lota, Nandlal and Mallaki — were watching TV.

A few minutes later warden Ramswaroop reached the door of the cell where four inmates — Hazi Khan, Mahesh, Mallaki and Nandlal — told him that Ajeet, Manoj Pratap Singh, Kulwinder Gurjar and Bhajan Meena had a brawl with Shakir Ullah over watching television. Ullah was hit by a marble slab, following which he felt unconscious and died within minutes.

“The marble slab was kept on a raised platform made up of bricks where earlier an old model TV was placed. But recently, the old model was removed and a wall-mounted TV was placed inside the cell,” said Anand Srivastava, commissioner of police, Jaipur.

Meanwhile, the four accused — Ajeet, Manoj Pratap Singh, Kulwinder Gurjar and Bhajan Meena — were called at Lalkothi police station for enquiry and their statements were recorded on Wednesday after which they were again sent back to jail.

According to a jail official, the prisoner’s body would soon be handed over to Pakistan from Wagah or Atari border.