Sanaullah’s body to be handed over to Pak: Shinde

CHANDIGARH 07-05-2013 Mohammad Sehzad and Mohammad Asif, kinspersons of Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay, coming out from Advance Trauma centre of Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGI) after visiting him in Chandigarh on Tuesday, 07 May, 2013. Sanaullah is surviving under deep coma sustaining multiple head injuries and fractures after he was assaulted by a fellow inmate in Jammu prison last week. Photo: Akhilesh_Kumar

The body of Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay, who succumbed to injuries in a Chandigarh hospital on Thursday, will be handed over to Pakistan.

“We will hand over the body to Pakistan,” Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde told PTI.

Mr. Shinde said the Ministry of External Affairs is coordinating with the Pakistani authorities to complete the formalities to send his body back home. “Once the formalities are done, we will hand over the body,” he said.

Sources said a detailed post-mortem of Sanaullah, 52, would be done in Chandigarh and the travel arrangements would be made as per the request made by Pakistan.

Government has been informed that Pakistan is arranging an aircraft to fly his body back home, the sources said, adding “If they arrange a non—military registered plane, the clearance would be prompt.”

Sanaullah, a convicted terrorist serving life sentence, was injured in a scuffle with another inmate in the high—security Kot Balwal jail in Jammu and rushed to the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh on Friday last.