Jaunpur (Uttar Pradesh): A man named Naseem Ahmed, 65, died of cardiac arrest at a temporary jail allotted to him after he was brought in during the first week of April being charged for allegedly providing refuge for foreign nationals. He was a heart patient and initial investigations have shown heart attack to be the cause of death. He was admitted to the hospital when his health had started worsening on Wednesday morning.
Divisional Commissioner Deepak Agrawal said: “Naseem Ahmad, who was booked in a case of arranging shelter for foreigners, including 14 Bangladeshis, without reporting their presence to the district administration, was a heart patient and was hospitalized twice in the past nine days. Cardiac arrest is suspected as reason for his death. Jaunpur police has sent his body for post mortem.”
According to officials, Ahmad, a native of Firozpur in Jaunpur, had returned from Delhi in March. After attending an event, a group of 16 people, including 14 Bangladeshis, had reached Jaunpur. They had initially stayed at Bada Masjid in city area but when police hastened its orders to search for people who attended the event in Delhi, Ahmad arranged a shelter for them near Lal Masjid in Saraikhwaja police station area as international transport services were banned in the country since March 22nd.
On March 31, the Saraikhwaja, the police arrested 14 Bangladeshis along with Yasin Ansari of Jharkhand and Mohd Abul Motalib of West Bengal. All of them were booked under concerned sections of Epidemic Diseases Act, Passport Act and Foreigners Act.The commissioner said, “During investigation it came to light that Ahmad had arranged shelter for them, after which a case was lodged against him and he was arrested. Initially, Ahmad was kept in quarantine centre where his COVID-19 test had also been conducted and he was found corona negative. Later, he was sent to a temporary jail created in a school premises by Jaunpur administration for epidemic offenders.”
Ahmad’s health had started deteriorating and was admitted to the district hospital on April 28th. He was also sent to BHU hospital for a checkup. On seeing enhancement in his condition, he was sent back to the temporary jail. On April 30th, he was again admitted to Jaunpur district hospital and discharged, taken to the jail back when his health started improving.
