Jammu:
Almost two months since Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay died after being attacked in a prison in Jammu, police have filed a chargesheet against one of the inmates in a local court.
Sanaullah was injured in a scuffle with another inmate in high-security Kot Balwal jail in Jammu on May 3. He died six days later in a Chandigarh hospital.
The chargesheet against Vinod Kumar of Uttarakhand was filed before the Chief Judicial Magistrate Jammu yesterday.
The court has fixed July 15 as the next date of hearing. "Challan (charge sheet) U/S 302 Ranbir Panel Code (RPC) in Gharota police station with regard to murder of Sonaullah of Daluwali Sialkot Pakistan, committed in Central Jail Kot Bhalwal Jammu, was produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate Jammu," a police spokesman said today.
The attack on Sanaullah came a day after Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh died after a brutal attack by fellow inmates in a Lahore prison.
According to a preliminary probe, 52-year-old Sanuallah, a resident of Sialkot, was working in a garden when he Vinod, a former Army personnel serving a life term in another case, attacked him with a brick.