PATIALA: Sikh Political Prisoner & KLF Chief Bhai Harminder Singh Mintu reportedly died of cardiac arrest here on Wednesday evening, officials of Patiala Central Jail where he was lodged said.
ADGP (Prisons) Inderpreet Singh Sahota has recommended a judicial inquiry into the death of Mintoo. He said Mintu felt uneasy before appearing in a video-conference in an ongoing case trial.
As per initial reports, He had undergone the video conferencing at 2 pm in a case registered against him in Jalandhar and was in his cell when he suffered a cardiac arrest. The jail doctors treated him before he was rushed to Rajindra Hospital.
Bhai Harminder Singh was lodged in the Patiala jail from past over a year. He had escaped from Nabha prison in a sensational jailbreak on November 28, 2016, only to be arrested a day later.