Convict prisoner in murder case dies of epilepsy

Trichy: A 35-year-old convict prisoner at the Trichy Central Prison died after experiencing epileptic seizures.
Prison officer Shanmuga Sundaram stated that M Karunamoorthy alias Karunakaran, a resident of Egirimangalam near Seerathoppu in Trichy, experienced epileptic seizures and collapsed in the prison on Friday morning. He was immediately transported to the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital (MGMGH), where he was pronounced dead.
Police registered a case and a judicial magistrate shall conduct an inquiry into the prisoner's death.
Karunamoorthy was an accused and subsequently convicted in a murder case registered at the Singanallur police station in Coimbatore city in Aug 2019. He was initially incarcerated in the Coimbatore Central Prison and transferred to central prison in Trichy in Jan 2022, where he had been confined since.
The was the second death of a convict prisoner in the central prison in Trichy in one week. V Muthaiyan, 30, a life convict in connection with a murder case, died of ill-health at MGMGH in the late hours of Nov 10.