Chandigarh, April 18: Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) chief and 2016 Nabha jailbreak accused Harminder Singh Mintoo died on Wednesday of "cardiac arrest", police said.
Police sources said Mintoo complained of uneasiness after a court hearing through videoconferencing in the Patiala Central jail, around 60 km from here.
Mintoo was examined by a prison doctor and later referred to a government hospital where he was declared dead.
A probe has been ordered into his death.
Mintoo was among six prisoners who made a sensational jailbreak from the maximum security prison in Nabha town in November 2016. He was re-arrested from Delhi's Nizamuddin railway station within a few hours.
Mintoo was earlier arrested from New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport in November 2014 after he returned from abroad. He was accused of involvement in various terror cases, including an attack on Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.
He was accused of hatching a conspiracy, at the behest of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, to revive terrorism in Punjab.
Mintoo was hiding in Thailand and Malaysia.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
