In a bizarre incident, a remand prisoner died at a districthospital in Kerala¡¯s Palakkad after allegedly consuming sanitiser which heconfused for alcohol, officials said.
Ramankutty, who was put in the prison as a remand prisoner was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday after he fell unconscious inside the jail.??
"We suspect that he drank a bottle of sanitiser whichare manufactured in the jail premises (by the prisoners) as per theinstructions of the state government," a senior jail official told PTI.
He was fine on Tuesday and was also in attendance for theroll call on Wednesday but fell unconscious at around 10:30 am, said, officials.
Jail authorities use Isopropyl alcohol as the main contentof the hand sanitiser.
Police stated they have filed a case and the accurate reasonof death will come to light only after a post-mortem is performed.
Since the outbreak of coronavirus, the prisoners in Keralageared up to manufacture hand sanitisers owing to the acute shortage of thecommodity. To overcome shortage of masks, amidcoronavirus outbreak, Kerala prisoners made over 6,000 masks in just two days.