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Sanaullah's body will be handed over to Pak: Shinde

JAMMU: 09, May 2013; The body of Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq, who succumbed to injuries in a Chandigarh hospital today morning round at 6.30 am, will be handed over to Pakistan. “We will hand over the body to Pakistan,” Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde told PTI. 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 madeas 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, was injured in a scuffle with indian prisoner vinod kumar a murder convict from uttrakhand 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.

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