NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has frowned on the failure of the Jammu and Kashmir government to anticipate the attack on Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah in a jail in Jammu.
It said the state government should have known such things could happen in wake of the death of Sarabjit Singh after being assaulted in a Lahore jail.
“You must have visualized that if something has happened in Pakistan, you should have taken precautions. You cannot allow rule of law to be compromised. Such incidents compromise rule of law,” a bench of Justice R.M. Lodha and Justice Kurien Joseph said, according to IANS.
The court expressed its anguish when approached by PIL petitioner Bhim Singh, seeking direction to the government to repatriate Sanaullah Ranjay to Pakistan.
Sanaullah was critically injured by fellow inmates on May 3. The incident occurred even as relatives of Sarabjit Singh were getting his funeral pyre ready in Punjab.
Sarabjit Singh, a prisoner on death row on charges of terror and spying, had been fatally attacked in a Lahore jail April 26.
Justice Lodha observed “You should have known that Pakistani prisoners are lodged in your jail and something can happen.”
