Saharanpur (UP), Mar 17 (PTI) Two prisoners lodged in Saharanpur district jail died on Sunday after suffering cardiac arrest, a jail official said.

The two deceased were Mainpal Singh (54), a resident of Haridwar in Uttarakhand, serving a six-year jail term in a rape case and Hasan (30) from Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar, a convict in a theft case, Superintendent of Saharanpur district jail Amita Dubey told PTI.

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Singh was handed the jail term by a court in Haridwar after which he was transferred to Saharanpur district jail.

Dubey said both of them suffered a heart attack on Saturday and were admitted to the district hospital. They died on Sunday while undergoing treatment, the jail official said.

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The bodies would be handed over to their families after post-mortem.

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