The death had created an international furore and Pakistan had asked India to investigate the matter, after which the government had asked the Haryana Police to probe.

The Haryana Police said it had been established that he had been suffering from chronic liver disease. According to Dr John V. George, Director General of Prisons, Haryana, the internal inquiry by jail officials and magisterial probe had established that Khalid Mehmood, alias Azad, died due to chronic hepatitis and rupture of blood vessels in the liver.

The prisoner died due to medical problems he was suffering from for several years. The matter was being thoroughly probed by Inspector-General (Prisons) M.S. Mann, who will file a detailed report to the Centre, as per Dr John V George.

Incidentally, according to the police, Khalid himself did not know he had serious medical problems. He was taking treatment periodically and his condition had deteriorated in the past four months before his death.

Khalid Mohammad had vomited blood on February 11 while in Gurgaon’s Bhondsi jail and was shifted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, the same evening. However, he died the next day and his body had been handed over to Pakistani officials at Attari-Wagah border on March 10. The Pakistani from Lahore had come to watch an India-Pakistan cricket match in Kanpur in April 2005. He was arrested a year later when found roaming aimlessly in Faridabad and lodged in Bhondsi jail for overstaying his visa permit. The police claimed Khalid was living in Faridabad under several aliases. He was arrested in May 2006 and since then he was in Bhondsi jail under the Official Secrets Act, Foreigners Act and Passport Act.