The condition of Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay was "stable", India said today while terming as "regrettable" the incident in Jammu jail where he was injured during a scuffle with another inmate and assured the guilty will be punished even as Pakistan sought his urgent repatriation.        

The Pakistan high commission also sought immediate consular access to 52-year-old Sanaullah, to which India maintained that it will grant the access after doctors treating him give the go-ahead for the same. Sanaullah was serving a life term after being convicted under TADA provisions following his arrest in 1999.  

"Pakistan High Commission has shown serious concern. It has taken up with Ministry of External Affairs the attack on Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah in Kot Bhalwal Jail in Jammu," the Press Attache in the High Commission here said.        

He added Pakistan had sought urgent repatriation of Sanaullah on humanitarian grounds for medical treatment there. Pakistan has also sought airlifting of Sanaullah by an air ambulance to Pakistan and assistance in ground facilitation.  

Image: Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah shifted to a hospital in Jammu  

Photograph: Reuters