A 41-year-old convicted prisoner, Md Shahidullah, died while undergoing treatment at Jamalpur General Hospital late on Thursday night.
The deceased was the son of the late A. Khalek of Joyrampur village in Jamalpur Sadar Upazila.
According to the police, a team from Jamalpur Police Station conducted a drive in the Joyrampur area at 11:40pm on Wednesday and arrested Shahidullah, an absconding convict, from the road in front of his house. He was brought to the police station at 11:56pm and placed in the lockup at 11:59pm in accordance with rules.
Shahidullah had been sentenced to one year of simple imprisonment and fined Tk10,52,000 in a Negotiable Instruments (NI) Act case.
Jamalpur District Additional Superintendent of Police (Crime and Ops) Yahya Al Mamun said that officers monitoring the station’s CCTV cameras noticed the prisoner lying on the lockup floor at 12:01am on Thursday and immediately went inside. As Shahidullah complained of chest pain and fell ill, he was promptly rushed to the 250-bed Jamalpur General Hospital at 12:05am.
He was declared dead at 12:58am while undergoing treatment, said duty doctor Md Shamim Iftekhar. Additional SP Yahya Al Mamun added that after the inquest and post-mortem examination, the body is being handed over to the family.
Dr Shamim Iftekhar, who is also the Residential Medical Officer (RMO) of Jamalpur General Hospital, said police brought Shahidullah to the hospital in an unconscious state at night. Oxygen was administered, and initial medical examinations- including an electrocardiogram (ECG) were conducted, after which he was pronounced dead. The RMO noted that there were no injury marks on his body and suspected that he died of a heart attack.
