complaint to the District Magistrate and Superintendent, Central Jail, Sriganganagar for comments. 4.13 Pursuant to the direction of the Commission, the Superintendent, Central Jail, Sriganganagar submitted the detailed report, health screening report, treatment record, inquest report and PMR. Later on, the viscera report, final cause of death, CD of post mortem examination and the copy of magisterial enquiry report were received. 4.14 The Commission considered the reports on 09.07.2014 when it observed and directed as under:“The detailed report reveals that the prisoner was admitted in the jail on 14.8.2011 on transfer from sub Jail Suratgarh. According to the report, at the time of admission in the Jail, the health condition of the prisoner was normal. He fell ill on 8.2.2013 and was admitted in Ganganagar Government hospital and he was discharged from the hospital on 10.2.2013. Again, he was admitted in the jail Hospital on the same day and in the night when his health suddenly deteriorated, he was referred to Sriganganagar hospital, the prisoner was declared brought dead. The inquest report does not show any external injury on the body of the deceased and the opinion formed was that the deceased died due to heart attack. The post mortem report too does not indicate existence of any external injury on the body of the corpse and the doctor who conducted the post mortem examination has not given his opinion pending the findings on the viscera report. The chemical examination report on the viscera gave negative test for metallic poisons, ethyl and methyl alcohol, cyanide alkaloids, barbiturates, tranquilizers and insecticides. The enquiring magistrate, who considered the evidence & other materials before him, has held that the death of the deceased prisoner Som Dutt had already taken place before he was shifted to the District Hospital and the cause of death was due to cardiac arrest. According to the magistrate, there was no evidence suggesting negligence on the part of the jail authorities and the deceased died a natural death due to cardiac arrest. The Commission finds that the material on record, though does not suggest any contrary opinion vis-à-vis the opinion of the medical board, its anxious concern is that whether there was any negligence in giving proper treatment by jail authorities. In fact, during course of magisterial enquiry, a co-prisoner of the deceased viz. Rajiv Sharma who claims to be an eye witness to the entire facts and circumstances that led to the death of the deceased, has testified that the deceased was not at all given medical attention despite specific request by him and other co-prisoners in the jail. Even they went to the extent of resorting to mass protest. The enquiry magistrate has simply rejected the testimony of Rajiv Sharma on the ground that there was no 30 National Human Right Commission Annual Report - 2014-2015