nainital a 19yearold haldwani jail inmate identified as shanu was allegedly killed inside the prison late on sunday by another inmatejail officials said that a fight broke out between shanu and an inmate named alok while they were watching tv after dinner both of them were lodged in the barrack number of 1 of the jail and according to eyewitness accounts alok attacked shanu and punched him several times in the chestalok punched shanu several times in the chests as he was trying to recover from the attack he suddenly collapsed and lost consciousness said senior jail superintendent manoj arya as the news of the fight spread the jail authorities first attended to shanu however as his condition started to worsen the officials first took shanu to susheela tiwari hospital however since its a covid19 specialist hospital he was referred to the base hospital where he was declared deadthe doctors pronounced him brought dead at the base hospital we have now sent his body for postmortem and his family has also been informed the body will be handed over to them once the postmortem is complete arya saidwhile shanu a resident of bajpur was lodged in jail after being convicted of the charges of robbery alok was serving his term on conviction of the charges of harassment alok is a resident of haldwanipolice have registered a murder case against alok and are investigating the case we are talking to eyewitnesses present in the spot a murder case under section 302 of the indian penal code ipc has already been registered and we are awaiting the postmortem to make progress with the investigation said arya